Comments on: Elephants and green walls http://www.catharinehoward.co.uk/2010/06/27/elephants-and-green-walls/ Garden Designer Catharine Howard's Illuminating Blog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:39:15 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Elephant's Eye http://www.catharinehoward.co.uk/2010/06/27/elephants-and-green-walls/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Elephant's Eye Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:47:43 +0000 http://www.catharinehoward.co.uk/?p=573#comment-191 Reduced heat island effect? Free standing wall? As a shade barrier, allowing a breeze to circulate, preventing the wall of the building accumulating heat, and heating the room inside, and ultimately heating up the city? And the air around the planted wall would be cooler than if it wasn't there. We had to add an outside shade (just ugly green plastic woven shade cloth) over the west facing wall of the kitchen. The inside surface of that wall was too hot to touch before, and then the excess heat radiated back thru the house. Reduced heat island effect? Free standing wall? As a shade barrier, allowing a breeze to circulate, preventing the wall of the building accumulating heat, and heating the room inside, and ultimately heating up the city? And the air around the planted wall would be cooler than if it wasn’t there.

We had to add an outside shade (just ugly green plastic woven shade cloth) over the west facing wall of the kitchen. The inside surface of that wall was too hot to touch before, and then the excess heat radiated back thru the house.

]]> By: Felicity Waters http://www.catharinehoward.co.uk/2010/06/27/elephants-and-green-walls/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Felicity Waters Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:37:55 +0000 http://www.catharinehoward.co.uk/?p=573#comment-189 green walls are supposed to absorb heat - not reflect - which in turn cools urban areas - and so forth reduce the heat island effect created by 'concrete cities' - however may not be a huge issue for london as opposed to cities in hotter climates green walls are supposed to absorb heat – not reflect – which in turn cools urban areas – and so forth reduce the heat island effect created by ‘concrete cities’ – however may not be a huge issue for london as opposed to cities in hotter climates

]]> By: Robur http://www.catharinehoward.co.uk/2010/06/27/elephants-and-green-walls/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Robur Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:33:07 +0000 http://www.catharinehoward.co.uk/?p=573#comment-188 An exotics nursery near me, Akamba, has life-size elephants for sale as garden ornaments. Enormously expensive. Don't know if this link to a photo will work: http://www.akamba.co.uk/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Jua_Kali_Elephan_4a1db8300a385.jpg Those Chelsea elephants look a bit sanitised; elephants need to look wild. Schools and playgroups might be interested. An exotics nursery near me, Akamba, has life-size elephants for sale as garden ornaments. Enormously expensive.

Don’t know if this link to a photo will work:
http://www.akamba.co.uk/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Jua_Kali_Elephan_4a1db8300a385.jpg

Those Chelsea elephants look a bit sanitised; elephants need to look wild.

Schools and playgroups might be interested.

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