GREEN WALL

From rows of plants in test tubes lining the wall, to complete plant coverage, there are numerous ways to go about it.

Here are some suggestions:

1. DECIDE WHERE AND HOW BIG. Assess the environment, and make sure there is plenty of natural light to encourage plant growth. Bright, indirect light is ideal for most plant walls.

2. SORT THE STYLE AND DESIGN OF THE WALL. It may be as simple as a DIY shelving system for pots to sit on, or an inbuilt, long-term, plant wall system, complete with timed water drippers, professionally designed and constructed.

3. THINK ABOUT WHAT PLANTS WILL WORK BEST IN YOUR WALL. Select low maintenance varieties such as pothos (Epipremnum aureum), philodendron, dracaena, and anthurium plants. Ferns also work well. Make sure all the plants on your wall require the same type of care.

4. PLANT WALLS NEED REGULAR MAINTENANCE, AND WATERING. A hand-held sprayer works well if you don’t have an in-built system. Regularly check your plants for bugs and disease, keep them clean, and prune them regularly.

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plant, animal and bird in your garden, on a hike or when showing off our beautiful country to visiting family and friends.

Anew app, developed by a group of New Zealand researchers can let you do just that.

Members of the TAIAO project at Waikato and Canterbury universities have used a data set of more than one million identified images to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify Aotearoa’s plants, animals and fungi. It’s the first tool tailor-made for Aotearoa wildlife and plant species.

The programme recognises unique features in photos of species large and small, from Hector’s dolphins to striated ants, and returns the scientific name, common names, and other related classifications, including Māori names where available.

The Aotearoa Species Classifier app can also identify wildlife wherever the user is, even without an internet connection. For those who wish to delve deeper at home, there’s an additional web classifier with more powerful models and tools. be taken to remove or destroy dangerous pests straight away,” Paul says.

PhD student Hongyu Wang and research programmer Paul Schlumbom developed the models and software and are continuing to work on the project. Paul says they have discovered some unexpected benefits.

A probability prediction is included in the identification with alternatives if there is any doubt about the likelihood of the species identified.

Hongyu says this ensures the integrity of the data. “We can say that normally the confidence is quite high, but with rare species the model might have more trouble. So you can check the top five possibilities if the confidence is not super high.”

The Aotearoa Species Classifier app is available in the App store now and on Google Play later this year.

“Because we have drawn data from a range of sources, the app is also able to identify pests, which means action can

Tree and Shrub

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Delivery & Planting

We can deliver and plant trees purchased from Allwood Trees. We do everything from digging the hole to staking the tree and adding slow release fertiliser.

Garden Maintenance

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Allwood has a great Landscape construction service specialising in soft landscape work. From planning to completion, Allwood can transform your property.