Are you looking for the best plants to use in your vertical garden?
We know how important it is to choose the right plants for your living wall. That’s why we want to share with you some of our favorite picks that will work well in your vertical garden. These are some of the most hardy and easy-to-care-for plants, yet they will bring life, color, and texture to any Living Wall.
Additionally these particular Houseplants act like air purifying machines helping eliminate toxins from indoors locations.
The possibilities are endless with Cortiça Garden’s Cork living wall system. It is time to create your own unique design and start enjoying all the benefits that come from a Living Wall!

Philodendron Cordatum
Philodendron is probably one of the easiest house plants to grow. Classified as a clean air plant, meaning it helps to remove formaldehyde and other toxic gasses from your home, improving people’s overall health, It’s easy to care for and can tolerate an array of lighting conditions.

Schefflera Arboricola
Schefflera (commonly called Umbrella Plant or Dwarf Schefflera) has glossy and sturdy oval leaves that almost look unreal because of their waxy shine. Their plus point is that they soak up nasty toxins like benzene, formaldehyde and toluene. Schefflera will adapt to almost any indoor growing conditions. They prefer medium light, moderate humidity, and temperatures between 60 and 75 degrees F.

Peace Lily Plant or Spathiphyllum
Peace Lily is the one plant you won’t want to be without. It can filter out all 5 harmful chemicals from air and has been proven time after time as a workhorse, requiring little maintenance! Place peace lilies in shaded spots so they don’t over-dry—just keep their soil moist but not soggy.

Pothos plants, ‘NJoy’
In need of a plant that can purify your air and make you feel better? This Pothos N’Joy is the perfect solution! Just add one to every 100 sq ft in an indoor space, and say goodbye to 90% of toxins so imaging what it could do with a Living Wall full or these beauties. Pothos N’joy plant needs very little water to survive. As with other Pothos plants, ‘NJoy’ prefers a bright, indirect light to partial shade.

Dracena Compacta
The Dracaena Compacta plant is known as a foliage grower, with its thick and glossy dark green leaves that spread out to form rosettes. It can withstand low light levels in order for it to produce abundant growth habits of lush greenery without requiring much care or attention from the owner. This plant is useful for removing xylene, trichloroethylene and formaldehyde which spreads in indoor air through lacquers like hairspray or furniture polish. Especially good at removing chemicals that are most often found within homes-formaldehyde being one of them!

Maranta Leuconeura
Maranta Leuconeura is known by the common name “Prayer Plant.” This plant can be a good accent color for your Living wall, although the prayer plant is somewhat tolerant of low light conditions, it does best in bright, indirect sunlight. The prayer plant prefers well-drained soil and requires high humidity to thrive so it will be important to be strategic in positioning the plant on your Living Wall.