Super Easy DIY Living Wall on the Cheap

Included here are several photos of a one year old living wall planted with native coral honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens and wild muscadine grapes, Vitis spp.

DIY Living Wall with Coral Honeysuckle and Muscadine grapes

This living wall approach was super simple to construct and importantly, inexpensive.

DIY Living Walls can be Inexpensive and Beautiful with Native Plants

I would say this wall has been one of the best living wall designs that I've put together.

I've been trying different living wall approach approaches for over twenty years now.  I like both the trellis approach and the vertical planter approach.

Trellis Grid Panels are Held Together with Hose Clamps

However the trellis approach has delivered solid screening results with faster coverage and much less maintenance.  Since the vines are installed in the ground they tend to require less additional irrigation than walls designed around vertical planters.

The Vines Also Hold the Grid Panels Together

This system contains about a half dozen retail store merchandising wall grids and another six aluminum porch columns that I attached to concrete bases in the ground via 1/4" anchor bolts.

I sealed the grid panels with an exterior epoxy then attached them to each other and the aluminum columns with stainless hose clamps.

The entire wall cost less than one hundred dollars and covers 25' in length x 8' in height.  We just went through strong category two Hurricane Sally and the wall was unhurt.

We rooted the coral honeysuckle from cuttings so the plants were 'free'.  The muscadine grapes were volunteer sprouts from around the yard.

Because the living wall is adjacent our previous chicken yard, the soil is extra fertile.  Fertile soil is just what the vines want and they have really grown up the grids.

I am always amazed with the structural cohesiveness twinning vines impart to the grids they weave themselves into.

Coral Honeysuckle is a Favorite Among Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds love coral honeysuckle.

So consider finding some retail store wall grid on the internet marketplaces and allowing native plants like grapes, coral honeysuckle, Carolina jessamine, trumpet vine and others to provide you with beautiful screening flora.  No need to buy expensive living wall systems when you can easily build your own.