vertical garden

American  

[vur-ti-kuhl gahr-dn] / ˈvɜr tɪ kəl ˈgɑr dn /

noun

1. a garden in which the plants are supported to grow along vertical, often tiered surfaces, especially fences, posts, trellises, and walls, rather than along the ground.

   Our first vertical garden, on part of an old barn door, yielded 18 bushels of summer squash.

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Other Word Forms

• vertical gardening
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of vertical garden

First recorded in 2010–15

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

vertical garden

And he has a lush vertical garden by his desk to prove it.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023

Hundreds of balloons were twisted and “planted” in different shapes and sizes to create a vertical garden.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022

A wooden ranch with solar panels, a vertical garden, a well, and a large building to the side that he calls a garage.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2022

The food hall features an open-air patio and vertical garden.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2017

She then spent some time looking at and discussing the vertical garden covering the length of pavilion, with rotating panels of herbs and vegetables that engineered to maximize sunlight exposure.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2015

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