May 16, 2012
Inspired by the Windowfarms in her former office, Brooklyn designer Danielle Trofe attended an urban farming conference which set her in motion to design her own self-sustaining vertical garden system, Live Screen.
Hydroponic Technology for Small Spaces
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Category: Container Gardening, Finding, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Herb Gardens, Hydroponics, Vertical Gardens
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April 28, 2012
When I spotted these colorful modular vertical planter systems at the Independent Garden Centers show, they reminded me of Uten.Silo, the classic 1969 wall storage containers designed for Vitra by Dorothee Becker. Their design cousin, Bellavaz, are modular self-watering … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Green Walls, Vertical Gardens
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March 5, 2012
With its Hawaiian theme, this year’s Philadelphia Flower Show did succeed in transporting me, if not to paradise, at least into my imagination for a few hours of fantasy. It did immersed me, perhaps a bit Disney-style, into the sights, … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Green Walls, Herb Gardens, Sky Planters, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens, Window Boxes
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December 23, 2011
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…
Category: Finding, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Reclaimed & Recycled, Vertical Gardens
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December 17, 2011
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…
Category: Creating, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Reclaimed & Recycled, Vertical Gardens
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