Garden on the Wall Earns Platinum Calm Tech Certification for Modular Indoor Greenery

People spend roughly 90 percent of their time indoors. Most of that time is spent in spaces designed around efficiency, code compliance, and cost per square foot. Whether those spaces support the people inside them has historically been a secondary concern.

Garden on the Wall® is a no-maintenance plant art system crafted with all-natural preserved moss and plant species, allowing buildings like airports and hospitals to bring nature inside. With so much of built life a non-place, greenery on the wall is an amazing way to put more infromation into a space that calms people down.

Peripheral Health

Garden on the Wall builds preserved moss and plant installations for commercial interiors. They have completed over 2,000 projects across 193,582 square feet of installed surface, working with design firms, Fortune 500 companies, healthcare institutions, and transportation authorities. Their research is conducted in collaboration with the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. Their "biophilia on demand" products allow durable greenery and fractals in a wide variety of spaces.

Spaces that contain natural material reduce occupant stress, support attentional recovery, and improve self-reported wellbeing. Studies measuring cortisol levels, focus duration, and mood in nature-present versus nature-absent environments find meaningful differences.

Living wall systems require water supply, drainage, grow lighting, and ongoing horticultural maintenance. Preserved plant material and moss provides greenery that retains the visual and tactile quality of living plants without irrigation infrastructure, maintenance schedules, or biological decay. Garden on the Wall's installations are rated for 20 or more years of use, which makes them the lower-cost option over any meaningful time horizon despite a possible higher upfront cost.

Material Design

The preserved systems are low-VOC and third-party tested. Garden on the Wall holds the only independently verified Environmental Product Declaration for preserved garden systems in the world, requiring third-party verification of environmental impact data across the product lifecycle.

Durability

Their sustainability practices include, through Garden on the Wall retrieves installed panels at end of life through a take-back program called Re-Leaf rather than sending them to landfill. The company operates under circular economy principles with recycling, repurposing, and reuse policies in place throughout production.

Garden on the Wall's white paper library covers applications across workplace, healthcare, aviation, senior living, retail, and education environments. Their healthcare research is worth noting specifically.

Evaluation

CTI's evaluation of Garden on the Wall focused on several criteria: material transparency and third-party verification, low-VOC composition, ease of maintenance, longevity, and peripheral attention.

Garden on the Wall in an airport can help calm stressed and hurried passengers by providing peripheral benefits.

A preserved garden installation is present in the background of a space in the way that good environmental design always is, noticed when it is absent rather than when it is there.

More information on Garden on the Wall's products, white papers, and project portfolio is available at gardenonthewall.com.