PHOTOGRAPH BY WES BATTOCLETTE
If you’re catching an FC Cincinnati game at TQL Stadium or shopping at Findlay Market this spring, you might find it easier than ever to locate a parking spot: Just look for the 70-foot-tall living wall. The installation is one of the latest feats of high-flying architectural greenery from Cincinnati-based Urban Blooms. And according to the company’s founder and CEO, Tyler Wolf, it might just be the second largest living wall in the U.S. Covering a massive 3,274 square feet, the wall features more than 8,000 living plants on 104 panels holding 16 species of perennial plants, including evergreen junipers; native heuchera; and flowering plants like catmint, geranium, liriope, and phlox. Living walls in urban settings purify the air, lower noise pollution, cool cities, and beautify the neighborhood as bona fide public art installations. “Just days after the first few panels were installed, we saw bumblebees, hummingbirds, and butterflies buzzing around the garage,” Wolf says. “[Which is] not something you normally see in an urban center or in a parking garage.”
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