WELCOME

Welcome to Vertical Gardening Textbook

A group of researchers, experts, entrepreneurs and practitioners have contributed to this textbook and it is to be used in conjunction with the Training Guide – Teachers Manual ‘Vertical Gardening’ and Catalogue of Knowledge, Skills and Competences VET module for students ‘Vertical Gardening’.

The VERTICAL PLANT LIFE project has been made possible with co-funding from the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Project Partnership

Biotechnical Centre Naklo (SI)

University of Greenwich (UK)

Humko d.o.o. (SI)

Terra MBO (NL)

Hadlow College (UK)

Authors | Chapters

Dr Sarah Milliken, University of Greenwich| Learning Unit 1 – Introduction to Vertical Greening Systems

Tomaž Čufer, Humko d.o.o. |Learning Unit 2 – Installation of Vertical Greening Systems

Shelley Mosco, University of Greenwich | Learning Unit 3 – Plants for Vertical Greening Systems

Tomaž Čufer, Humko d.o.o; Dr Sabina Šegula, Biotechnical Centre Naklo; Peter Ribič, Biotechnical Centre Naklo| Learning Unit 4 – Maintenance of Vertical Greening Systems

Sonja Jerič Štefe, Biotechnical Centre Naklo | Revision questions in each chapter

Issued in 2017

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