A vertical garden is a perfect decor for your outdoor patio area. You can even use these ideas indoors! What benefits of a vertical garden? Well just read on... 

1. Vertical gardens are a great way to decorate a wall, fence, arbor, or pergola. 

2. These gardens help purify the air as the plants capture dust and other particles in the air. Of course, we all learned in school plants help produce oxygen. 

3. The vertical garden can help to reduce noise levels! Yes, it's true! 

4. The shade of the garden can help reduce the temperature during the summer as well. 

Read on friends for a few cool ideas to create your vertical garden: 

1. Put some old wooden pallets to good use. Remember, vertical, so you will be standing the pallets on their side, up against your brick or sided house. Nail two pallets together, and use a few small boards for bottoms in each open section. 

Fill with soil and plant your herbs! It's very easy to label each herb with a permanent marker or get some chalkboard to size and use chalk! These are very eye-catching and provide plenty of fresh herbs. 

2. Consider using a pole across, tying a long rope or macrame lengthwise, and using boards tied in with holes for small pots of plants or flowers. You can hang this outdoors or indoors! 

3. My personal favorite is recycling plastic bottles. Again using rope or macrame at different intervals tie the bottles on top and bottom into the macrame. bottles will be on their side. Cut out the top side of the plastic bottle, fill the bottle with dirt and plant away! These look so chic and hippie-ish!

Using your imagination, you can create small or large vertical gardens that are not only a great decor piece but provide fresh garden items!