Originally published on businesstraveller.com 28/05/2009  

Luxury London hotel The Athenaeum has created a vertical garden on the side of the Mayfair property. Being just down the road from the Business Traveller offices, we thought we’d go and take a look...

The “living wall” has been designed by French botanist Patrick Blanc, who has created similar vertical gardens on the walls of buildings including the Westin Hotel and Spa, Paris, and the forthcoming Skyteam lounge at Heathrow T4 (due to open next week).

For more information visit athenaeumhotel.com, verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com.