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Things Looking Up for Your Urban Garden

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:14:43 +0000

Lacking floor space or just want to add plants to the upper reaches of your living space while at the same time conserving water and purifying the air you breathe? You may want to consider the Boskke Sky Planter.

Since potted plants…

Dutch Artists Plant Public Mobile Vertical Gardens

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:26:34 +0000

A group of Dutch artists have made Amsterdam a little greener with the launch in March of the Mobile Gardens, an initiative to promote vertical gardening with citizens of Amsterdam New West.

The mobile garden project, created by artists Jair…

Green Development Does Dallas

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:03:54 +0000

Scheduled to break ground in early 2011, Forwarding Dallas, the product of a collaboration between Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov, will run “off the grid,” acting as a working model of sustainability for cities around the globe. The design was…

Stringing Together an Urban Garden

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:51:25 +0000

What started out two years ago as the whimsical project of Fedor, a Dutch fellow about whom nobody seems to know much, has blossomed into a series of string gardens: planted hanging gardens that are a variation of kokedma, a…

Hanging Out in Your Kitchen Potager

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:33:17 +0000

With Cocoon, Swedish designer Mans Salomonsen combines decoration, storage and gardening in a kitchen window sky planter. You can grow spices and store fruits in the organic shape and while cultivating both life and color into your environment. Made of clay, Cocoon absorbs water…

Au Revoir Paris: Bringing Home the Garden

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:37:16 +0000

Patrick Blanc vertical garden wall behind glass at Marité et François Girbaud shop in Paris

It’s been a week of creative inspiration and as I pack it all up from Paris for my to return to New York, I will be…

Call for Creating Productive Urban Green Space

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:15:21 +0000

Terreform One, a non-profit design group that promotes green design in cities, is launching the One Prize Award–Mowing to Growing: Rethinking the American Lawn: an international design competition for creating productive green space in cities.

Through their creative projects and outreach efforts,…

Sky’s the Limit for Japanese Tree House

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:11:49 +0000

A Japanese firm, Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects, have designed a tree house situated on a 323 square foot site for a couple in Osaka .

Their concept is based on sustainable systems. Structural columns intertwine like ivy supporting slabs on each floor, and soil…

Autumnscape Your Garden

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:09:39 +0000

Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton

Gardening in Fall is entirely dependent on the weather. If there’s an Indian Summer, there is no better time of year to be out in the garden. While gardeners in warm areas will have more to do than…