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NYC’s Alphabet City Neighborhood Botanical Garden

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:10:05 +0000

On a stroll through New York City’s Alphabet City recently, I discovered some wonderful obscure gardens–that is, I almost walked by before noticing them. Coined Alphabet City because it encompasses the areas between Avenues A through D, the neighborhood … Read More...

Takin’ It to the (Sustainable Urban) Streets

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:00:38 +0000

A concept of sustainable urban public space design, Le Jardin à La Rue (The Street Garden) was conceived by landscape designers Germaine Bourré and Julien Maiella for The International Garden Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire, France. The festival, whose theme this year … Read More...

The High Line’s French Ancestor: La Promenade Plantée

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:38:42 +0000

The view looking down into the park from the entrance above.

The model for its contemporary American cousin, The High Line, Paris’s Promenade Plantée, also known as the Coulée Verte (or “Flowing Green”), was the world’s first and only … Read More...

Sowing Stories at P Allen Smith’s Garden2Blog

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:24:11 +0000

The Garden2Blog event, hosted by P Allen Smith April 26-27, will be a rich opportunity for the invited bloggers to learn and explore–to offer “cuttings” from each other’s own unique perspectives, to spread the seeds of creativity. As described in … Read More...

New York City’s First Urban Indoor Pop-Up Park

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:57:55 +0000

After two snowstorms, New Yorkers might be happy to escape the cold by stepping into the 73 degree warmth of a new indoor pop-up park. If they can make an indoor park here, they can make it anywhere. New York, … Read More...

New York City Landmarks Created From Nature

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:59:23 +0000

Photo by Robin Plaskoff Horton

Amid the glimmer and twinkle of tiny lights, G-scale model trains chug along a half-mile of track circling 140 miniature landmark buildings constructed entirely of natural materials including, bark, twigs, seeds, fruits, nuts, vines, mosses, … Read More...

Urban Farm Concept Cultivates More Than Food

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:09:58 +0000

Imagine a sustainable and sophisticated design for a public space that responds to the increasing public interest in urban agriculture, beautifies a neighborhood, and at the same time, engages the community. The Huntington Urban Farm, designed by New … Read More...

Cool Blogs to Follow: Not Just Your Garden Variety

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:40:51 +0000

Photo by Ellen Shapiro, Dig-it-Blog

I’ve made some new friends in and out of the garden lately. Some I met at the Garden Writers Association Annual Symposium in Dallas last month, some through other bloggers and on Twitter, others just … Read More...

Paris: City of Lights and Plants

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:19:27 +0000

In 1828, when Paris lit the Champs Elysées with gas lamps earning the nickname La Ville-Lumière, or City of Lights, had it instead lined the street with plants, it might have become known as The City of Plants. During … Read More...

Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are

tdomf_fd1a9 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:24:54 +0000

Sustainable Flatbush volunteers planting daffodils, 2009

More than a tree is growing in Brooklyn. Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are, presented by Sustainable Flatbush Sunday, February 21, is an afternoon of short demonstrations and hands-on workshops including seed-starting for … Read More...