Urban Gardens

If awarded  funds from the Partners in Preservation grant, The New York Botanical Garden hopes to conduct a comprehensive restoration of the Rock Garden Cascade.

Urban Gardens wants to give you a $50 American Express gift card for entering this … Read More…

Tall bamboo extends to the second floor from the lobby below. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton, Urban Gardens.

The five-story Japan Society building in Manhattan stands apart from its granite and limestone neighbors, a flat black modern reinforced concrete “bento box” … Read More…

Chickens at P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Retreat. Photo: Urban Gardens.

I got to talk chicken with award-winning designer, gardening and lifestyle expert, P Allen Smith, when I was a guest recently for the second annual Garden2Blog at his … Read More…

UK pothole gardener extraordinaire, Steve Wheen, recently touched ground in Milan to plant 14 of his ubiquitous small-scale gardens during Milan Design Week. Italian auto manufacturer Lancia, who recently launched a new range of eco cars and was … Read More…

The Armstrong house garden in Corona, Queens. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton, Urban Gardens.

The great jazz artist, Louis Armstrong spent his last 28 years in a modest home in Corona, Queens. Armstrong’s fourth wife Lucille purchased the house in 1943 … Read More…