how to make a botanical privacy screen
Biophilic Wall Design
Special guest: Kendra LaRoche @loftandleaf
bringing the outdoors in: designing a breathtaking indoor botanical privacy screen
There are endless ways to incorporate outdoor nature in your indoor spaces. One of the most dramatic and breathtaking forms of this is a biophilic wall design. Today we chat with Kendra LaRoche from Loft & Leaf to learn about her inspiration behind her Veradek botanical Privacy Screen.
My name is Kendra LaRoche. I started working with plants three years ago after growing my own house plant collection. After collecting over 100 houseplants, my knowledge of them grew and so did my love!
I took a chance on my new found passion and applied to a local nursery to work with plants. They hired me and took me under their wing. I learned the basics about landscaping and container gardening here and from there went on to take a position as the lead container designer at a design firm in south Florida! This is where I really fell in love with container gardening. I learned everything I know from leading the teams there and being taught by some great mentors.


How did you get interested in doing biophilic design?
After a year of being mentored, I knew I wanted to take a more creative route with my designs than the firm allowed. I set off to start my own business and that's how Loft & Leaf was born. The biggest inspiration for Loft & Leaf comes from our natural environment and our surroundings. My mission is to bring the outside in!

Creating the Veradek Privacy Screen really allowed a great opportunity to bring the outside in! While planning my design for the privacy screen I knew it needed to be aesthetically pleasing, attainable, and practical for consumers. This led me to use preserved moss, a beautiful product that needs no care but still brings the look to life all while playing off the design of the screen.

To recreate a piece like this in your home I recommend using orchids and air plants to hang from the screen. As well as incorporating the preserved moss to give it that lived-in look! Consider adding one (or more) Veradek planters to the design to add some dimension! Another approach I considered was planting the base container with vining plants and having them grow up the screen. The vining plants would grow nicely up the screen!

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