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Scrap Ecology: Botanical Sculpture

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:00:44 +0000

Experimenting in his Brooklyn Gowanus neighborhood, designer/artisan Daniel Goers has created Scrap Ecology, a collection of design objects and sculptures created from wood scraps and other found materials, each containing a living component rendering them simultaneously as art, furniture, … Read More...

How to Make a Vertical Garden From Disposable Cups

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:26:51 +0000

Turn man-made into man-saved by creating a Re-DIY vertical green living wall as Turkish design firm Designnobis did. For their Naturewall, the designers collected about ten used plastic disposable coffee cups, washed them off, then created a simple flexible metal … Read More...

Five Easy Steps for Creating an Indoor/Outdoor Vertical Garden or Green Wall

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:51:09 +0000

You don’t have to be Patrick Blanc to create your own vertical garden. In even the smallest spaces, you can plant up instead of out with modular pocket planters like those from Woolly Pockets. Design your own green living wall … Read More...

From Paris: What’s Trending Indoors and Out

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:41:18 +0000

Bacsac’s gorgeous displays of its new soft garden container designs. They now offer bright colors.

Oo La La, I’m in Paris, and here is some of what’s trending from the international design fair, Maison et Objet Outdoor/Indoor: The boundaries continue … Read More...

Design Challenge: Ten Urban Balcony Garden Ideas

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:39:53 +0000

Grass Mosaic

Garden Unique, a new premium outdoor section of spoga+gafa opening in September in Cologne, Germany, is sponsoring Garden Goes Balcony, a design contest inviting new or established designers to submit fresh ideas for creative balcony spaces. … Read More...

Mini Vertical Garden for Balcony, Patio, or Kitchen

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:31:52 +0000

Looking for a living wall or vertical garden system to screen your balcony while you grow veggies, fresh aromatic herbs, or flowers either indoors or out? The modular system is great for creating a small green wall or larger vertical … Read More...

More Urban Garden Ideas From the Golden State

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:10:22 +0000

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...

Botanical Wall Paintings Feature Found Elements

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:51:31 +0000

Kate Hill Cantrill’s botanical wall “painting” was a favorite feature at our Fall installation for the Shippan Designer Show House’s Creative Garden Retreat.

Cantrill incorporates various natural elements into her assemblages, many of which are found on New York beaches … Read More...

Philadelphia Flower Show Draws Some Ooh La La!

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:26:33 +0000

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...

Women Landscape Architects Gaining Ground

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:55:52 +0000

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...