Sustainable with style: how to turn your water tank into a vertical garden

Jane Griffiths shares her tips on how to create a thriving vertical garden on a tank

27 August 2023 - 00:00 By Jane Griffiths

With an increasingly unstable water supply, many people are looking at installing water tanks. Others want to harvest precious rainwater for drier periods. Tanks are great for both, but aesthetically are not that wonderful. When I had rain and greywater tanks installed, I wanted to hide them. On a trip to the Cape, I saw a vertical garden installed on a large tank and knew that's exactly what I needed. ..

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