Urban Gardens

Euphorbia, Dwarf Crown of Thorns. from Texas nursery, Colors of Creation

DoLeaf is a new central online marketplace where gardeners can connect with growers and small garden retailers around the nation. They offer a wide variety of unique plants that are perfect for…

I’m looking forward to this spring, when a portion of the future 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park at Pier 6 is scheduled to open, followed by Pier 1 scheduled to open this winter, with the entire project expected to be completed by…

The Swedish architectural firm, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, has conjured up a concept for a shelter up in the trees: a light-weight aluminium structure hung around a tree trunk, a 4×4×4m box clad in mirrored glass. How cool this would be…

Looking to turn up the heat outdoors? This palm tree doesn’t produce any hot dates, but as I tire of the snow and the forecast for more, I can warm up to this. Maybe a tad kitsch, but as I…

Green walls enclose living area of Elot House

The owner of this urban garden house expressed his dream about living in a “forest” setting amidst the urbanized city of Singapore and his architect, Chang Yong Ter of Chang Architects,  interpreted the dream. In…

A gardener’s gotta go when a gardener’s gotta go…garden.

Functional and compact, these aesthetically conceived contemporary gardening tools, designed for American agri-industry brand John Deere by Mexican designers Richard Gomez and Veronica Heredia Otero, are great even for those without their own…

Take a virtual spin through this urban environmental art installation, to be experienced, not just viewed and admired. With LEDs embedded in the cobbled surface below that bathe a steel plate suspended eight meters high by thin poles, the glow of…

City: PostCarden’s urban garden for the tabletop horticulturist

The card that keeps on cultivating… PostCarden is a post card that unfolds into a garden. You send it and the recipient just adds water, light, and some daily love. Comes with seeds and instructions…

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Consider rolling this one out into your garden. Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has turned a stack of birch logs turned into a garden hideaway, office, shed, or whatever you can dream up. It’s outfitted with simple plastic…

This beautifully crafted mahogany and maple table by California designer Greg Zulkie has three stainless steel pots for holding anything from plants to pens. Viewed from the top, one can see how the mahogany “stitches” the maple surfaces together.

Over time, as…