While serving as dean of general affairs at National University of Kaohsiung, Huang Shyh-meng, now a professor in the school's Graduate Institute of Urban Development and Architecture, was in charge of campus planning. He left that role upset that he hadn't been able to complete the work of constructing vertical gardens on exterior walls.
高雄大學都市發展與建築研究所教授黃世孟在擔任高雄大學總務長期間，負責校園規劃任務，令他耿耿於懷而沒有完成的心願，就是落實建築物外牆垂直綠化的工作。