Friday, August 21, 2009

Alingsås









The long Swedish summer holiday means that there's a lot of delayed projects, and as a result, there's no major construction around for me to participate in while I'm at Green Fortune Stockholm. Luckily this project came up. I was not there for the fabric and irrigation mounting, but I was there for the day-long planting of the wall.This wall is located in Alingsås, a small town in west of Sweden, some 4 hours by the train from Stockholm, and it is placed in the newly renovated waiting room for the Alingsås hospital. The wall is about 10 meters square, and we planted some 220 plants, including philodendron, nephrolepis, hedera, monstera, etc. (see the planting schedule up there?) The wall looks a little empty for now, but in time, the plants will grow, cover the wall, and look nice like the other ones!

It was a long day, and to describe everything would be an overkill. So here's the dot point summary:
4:15, woke up.
5:04, goes to office to fetch Gustav and the perlites.
6:10, took the train.
10:00, arrived at the hospital.
11:30, started planting the monsteras at the bottom.
13:00, lunch.
14:00, proceeds with the herdera...
15:00, sweated under the superbright bulbs...
16:00, finished planting. Clean up time!
17:40 Swept the last traces of soil off the floor.
18:30, took the train back
23:00, arrived in Stockholm.
24:00 mignight, home again.

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