March 29, 2011

As I peered through the cut out of a beautiful metal screen into landscape architect Jeffrey Gordon Smith’s award-winning installation, Pi r Squared, for the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show, I definitely felt this designer’s invitation to Get … Read More…
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March 13, 2011

A planted car in The Auto Salvage Garden, created by Delaware Valley College.
With Edith Piaf ‘s La Vie en Rose in the air, it was Springtime in Paris this year at the Philadelphia International Flower Show, the world’s … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Experiencing, Garden Art, Green Roofs, Green Walls, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
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February 1, 2011

Bus Roots is a living garden planted on the roofs of city buses. It’s an effort that rose out of New York City designer Marco Antonio Castro Cosio’s graduate thesis at the NYU. The project aims to reclaim the … Read More…
Category: Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Greening
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January 8, 2011

Exploring the role of women in landscape architecture, the documentary film, Women in the Dirt, takes us behind the scenes with seven of California’s most influential female designers: Mia Lerher, Andrea Cochran, Cheryl Barton, Isabelle Greene, Katherine Spitz, Pamela … Read More…
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October 17, 2010

Many have written, photographed, and spoken about urban gardens. But this is the first time I have seen someone rap about urban gardens. I was “moved” by this urban gardens rap music video…
And as the rappers note: ”Urban gardening … Read More…
Category: Community Gardens, Experiencing, Green Roofs, Urban Agriculture
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