Urban Gardens

It’s like a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) that delivers but, instead of just delivering the produce, it delivers the farm. Home Grow Micro Farms, a new service in the greater Los Angeles area, delivers pre-planted, high-productivity, low-maintenance organic vegetable … Read More...

As a focal point for the dining “pod” of their client’s newly renovated duplex apartment, PullTab Design designed a custom planted vertical garden wall.

I like how the green wall wraps around the side of the stairway. The plants offer … Read More...

We’ve written before about bag planting systems. Great for urban dwellers, they offer a lightweight and easily transportable alternative to traditional planters. French product designer and architect, Patrick Nadeau’s textile Urban Garden Sack planting system for Authentics, … Read More...

More sod stories abound. Living furniture makes another debut,  this time growing from Japanese studio, Mindscapes, who want you to sit on their grass-covered furniture.

The white feet make the stools look a bit like animals.

Fancy a … Read More...

Photo from Wunderground.com

…to wish all Urban Garden subscribers and readers a Happy Thanksgiving!

There are alternatives to traditional Christmas poppers that usually include a small charm or toy that you end up tossing in the trash…kind of a waste. These fair trade poppers from Biome, are handmade in the UK of seed … Read More...

It was 65 degrees in Manhattan yesterday. Imagine my surprise when I emerged from the subway at Madison Square Park to see snow all around me! Although it looked very real, I had descended upon the remnants of a movie … Read More...

Alexandre Marronoz’s new urban outdoor seating designs, as the designer says, “take the concept of “green” furniture a step further.” The free form designs are inspired by nature, interpreted as large stones, tree trunks, or logs “for sitting, refecting or … Read More...

When the garage is part of your backyard, ya might as well blend it into the landscape instead of hiding it. That’s what my friends did in their Santa Monica, California backyard garden. Like many of the homes in the … Read More...

Back room of the garden retreat. Photo by Robin Plaskoff Horton.

Urban Gardens was honored to be invited by friend and blog follower Victoria Lyon of Victoria Lyon Interiors, to design Conversing With Nature: A Creative Garden Retreat… Read More...