August 11, 2010
Urban Gardens is excited to be collaborating with Victoria Lyon Interiors and Eden Farms Nursery and Garden Center to create Conversing with Nature: A Creative Garden Retreat, an innovative green garden shed space cum creative retreat for the Shippan Designer Show…
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Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Container Gardening, Garden Design, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Greening, Reclaimed & Recycled, Vertical Gardens
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July 26, 2010
On my the hunt for objects repurposed into cool things for two garden rooms and a garden we are doing for the September Stamford, CT Designer Show House, I came across these teacups and creamers upcycled into bird feeders.
Working with the theme…
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Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Finding, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Reclaimed & Recycled
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June 29, 2010
London has built something eco-friendly for the birds–the urban birds of the Bankside neighborhood, famous for the Tate Modern museum. The architectural firm, 51% studios, has designed for the London Festival of Architecture, incorporating the theme of exchange–of knowledge, habitat, materials– three Nestworks, bird nesting…
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Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Green & Sustainable, Greening
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June 16, 2010
Photo from Flikr, by Smallthingsiced
Check out these cool seed tapes and simple birdhouse you can make for Dad. I like to support the economy just as much as the next person, but I’ve always appreciated receiving a home made gift–especially…
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Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Creating, Green & Sustainable, Green Gadgets, Reclaimed & Recycled, Urban Agriculture
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June 2, 2010
Baltimore’s going greener behind closed gates. By gating some of the city’s approximately 600 miles of private and public alleys, many are being transformed into verdant kid-friendly urban gardens and social meeting spaces.
Residents hope that by gating and greening the alleys they…
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Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Urban Agriculture
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