Roof Garden

Large cities are getting more and more polluteded. In an attempt to reduce this pollution cities around the world are trying to become more green. Indonesia also recently declared several cities as Green City. A program will be developed to create more green open spaces as lungs on the city. Becoming more green is also seen as very important for the health of its inhabitants.   

A relating floriculture trend that has been developed in big cities the last two decades is the roof garden. Garden roofs have several functions; they reduce air pollution and noise, they lower air temperature and they can help to conservate water. Besides they can be contribute to the beauty of the building and can add to the biodiversity of a large city (Green Rooftops, 2008; Holladay, 2006).

Types of plants used on roof gardens are grasses, shrubs, and several ornamental plants. The gardens also offer leisure areas for the inhabitants of cities. The development of rooftop gardens in Indonesia have not been so rapid, but more and more roofgardens are being installed. For example the public roofgarden on Plaza Indonesia.

Vertical Garden

Vertical Gardens

This "green" trend is around for some time now. It started in the home-improvement sector and is called Vertical Gardening. Vertical gardens are also known as living walls or green walls. This innovative form of gardening allows homeowners to grow a huge variety of potted plants vertically on their wall. They can vary from using only one or two varieties of plant material to incorporating numerous plants to create a sort of tropical habitat.

Of course in tropical Indonesia you can encounter the real thing in outdoor natural environments, but various ready man-made systems are now available on the market for indoor as well as outdoor usage. Examples of a successful indoor vertical garden can be found in Shopping Centres in Bangkok and Singapore.

Indonesian Flower Design Trend

There are many very successful flower decorators in Indonesia. One of the top performers is Andy Djati Utomo of Intuition Floral Art Studio in Jakarta. His innovative work has won numerous important prizes internationally and he is recognised for his work all over the world. Recently has won a gold medal for in the category “Bridal” in the annual competition of the renowned British magazine “Fusion Flowers Magazine”. The beautiful picture on the left shows his winning project.