November 18, 2010
Back room of the garden retreat. Photo by Robin Plaskoff Horton.
Urban Gardens was honored to be invited by friend and blog follower Victoria Lyon of Victoria Lyon Interiors, to design Conversing With Nature: A Creative Garden Retreat… Read More...
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Bulbs and Plants, Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Creating, Garden Art, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Outdoor Furniture, Reclaimed & Recycled, Terrariums, Vertical Gardens, Window Boxes
Tags: eco-friendly enclave, garden graffiti, green spaces, Green Walls, living walls, moss graffiti, outdoor sculpture, plant pocket systems, Vertical Gardens
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March 3, 2010
Inca Wall Garden surrounds terrace
Vertical gardens and living walls are of increasing interest to urban gardeners looking to maximize their garden space for harvesting their own food or for simply beautifying their surroundings. A ‘growing’ trend, there are several … Read More...
Category: Edible Landscaping, Finding, Garden Design, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Privacy: Walls & Screens, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
Tags: living walls, modular green walls, modular vertical gardens
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September 24, 2009
PNC (NYSE: PNC) has successfully installed a 2,380 square-foot living wall with 602 modular panels on the exterior of their Pittsburgh headquarters building, One PNC Plaza.. Each 2’x2′ panel has roughly 24 plants, so there’s approximately 14,448 plants covering the … Read More...
Category: Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Greening, Vertical Gardens
Tags: living walls, modular panel living walls, urban vertical gardens
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September 15, 2009
The world’s biggest collection of non-nettly-looking nettles – or Urticaccae, for those in the know–as well native plants and flowers, are sprouting vertically up the exterior walls of The Athenaeum Hotel in London. The city’s humid microclimate is the perfect … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Hydroponics, Travel, Vertical Gardens
Tags: botanical architecture, herbacious, Hydroponics, living walls, organic urban architecture, sustainable gardens, urban garden, Vertical Gardens, vertical green space
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