July 6, 2010

I came cross this cool spinning “ferris wheel” planter while researching items to include in the small two-room garden shed I am designing with interior designer, Victoria Lyon for the upcoming Stamford Designer Show House. Though the location is certainly more peri-urban…
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Category: Container Gardening, Education & Tours, Experiencing, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Reclaimed & Recycled, Vertical Gardens
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June 25, 2010

Vertical gardening is on the rise. French designer, Germain Bourré, has created a stunning green wall solution with his Etagères Potagères, a vegetable garden system composed of stacking coated steel shelving modules that offers great placement and design flexibility for small urban gardens.

Behind…
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Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Garden Design, Green Walls, Vertical Gardens
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May 19, 2010

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…
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Category: Community Gardens, Composting, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Green Walls, Greening, Hydroponics, Irrigation, Permaculture, Rain Gardens, Rooftop Gardens, Sky Planters, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
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March 26, 2010

With 110 transparent plastic food containers filled with leaves, branches, and a lighting source, “Packaged Vertical Gardens” climb the walls in Madrid, an urban vertical garden installation as commentary on the scarcity of available public green space.

In seeking to promote the preservation…
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Category: Experiencing, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Just For Fun, Uncategorized, Vertical Gardens
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March 10, 2010

It lies at the intersections of wall art, vertical garden, and air purification system–if I understand it correctly. Elements of Nature, a student project submitted to the James Dyson Design competition by Hamit Kuralkan of Monash University, is a customizable mesh…
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Category: Finding, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls
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