February 4, 2013
Pulltab Design, whose indoor green wall I featured a few years ago, designed this beautiful urban garden for a client in New York City’s East Village, incorporating a novel custom water feature and space defining canvas privacy screens made … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Experiencing, Green Walls, Rooftop Gardens
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January 27, 2013
Like ready-to-wear fashion for plants, Scheurich’s lightweight StylePot, a tear-resistant UV-resistant textile planter, has a rigid plastic insert with drainage holes that, if desired, can be closed with specially-fitted plugs during indoor overwintering.
When the weather warms up again … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots
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January 24, 2013
Green curtains outside the Arakawa City Hall in Tokyo, Japan.Photo, Bloomberg.
Anticipating rising energy costs after Japan’s nuclear disaster, and inspired by the green curtains on the facades of many municipal and commercial buildings, many Tokyo residents have created DIY … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Greening, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens, Window Boxes
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January 11, 2013
Money may not grow on trees, but you can grow money. They look almost like real pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters…but this money actually grows into something when you spend it.
Seed Money are hand-illustrated and letterpress printed ”coins” embedded … Read More…
Category: Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Guerilla Gardening!, Herb Gardens, Urban Agriculture
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I love this modular and stacking HoneyComb Gardening System designed by Audrey Lea Lucardi of Brooklyn-based StudioTJOA.
Perfect for small urban spaces, the entire honeycomb structure collapses flat for shipping or storing. When assembled, it can be connected to an … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Furniture, Great Finds
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