Why Moss?

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Live Moss mats and panels for exterior  walls and roofs  are a cost-effective and easy-to-maintain solution offering many environmental benefits.  Moss coverings offer a simple biophilic design element for outdoor building surfaces.  This layer of live moss  improves urban air quality by absorbing C02, capturing pollutants, and cooling surrounding air.  It also does some amazing things for the building.

For close to 500 million years, moss, the first terrestrial plant, has been purifying and oxygenating air here on earth. Our current atmosphere is thought to have been established 450 million years ago when mosses blanketed the planet

Moss has perhaps the best air cleansing and oxygenating capabilities of any plant. This is due in part to the vast surface area of moss plants. Moss is essentially a "green lung," capturing all sorts of pollutants, allergens and harmful particles.   Moss and its' companion beneficial microbes actually "feed" off these particles as moss obtains all its' nutrients from air and water - it has no roots! 

Many modern buildings suffer from poor indoor air quality and bland, “non-green” spaces. Stagnant, dry, polluted and oxygen-depleted air all contribute to lower productivity, shorter attention spans and increased sickness. 
Bringing Verdure Wellness Walls with moss and plants to your indoor space will greatly enhances the visual aspects of your interior. The greenery will instill a sense of well-being, relaxation, and can even improve productivity.

Moss wall and roof systems for building exteriors can have a dramatic impact upon heating and cooling costs, building covering longevity, and of course dramatically impact the quality and temperature of the surrounding airspace.  Covering a building with moss can literally turn it into a living and breathing organism! 

Ever notice how you feel more clear-headed and energized at the beach, the lake, or on that hike in the woods alongside a meandering stream?  Negative ions.
Plant leaves produce negative ions, and no plant has more leaf surface area than moss.  These negative ions  attract positively charged airborne particulate (pollutants) of all sorts with their negative charge and then eventually these combined particles get heavy enough to drop from the airspace - or in this case onto the moss  wall or roof where they are captured and further broken down by naturally occurring aerobic microbes that reside in the moss. The moss then actually utilizes these compounds as nutrients..