February 26, 2025
Photo: Haupt and Binder
Updated February 2025
From the street, one would never guess that a magnificent narrative of Venetian history, art, and culture was hidden behind centuries-old plaster walls and a set of wooden doors marked 3201.

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Category: Container Gardening, Experiencing, Garden Design, Lifestyle, Travel
Tags: BlogTour, BlogTour Milan, Italian palace gardens, Venice garden design. Contessa Anna Barnabò, Venice garden hostory, Venice garden tours, Venice gardens, Venice palace tours, Venice tourism, Venitian palaces
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February 21, 2025

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Although Old Salem is just a 10-minute drive from Winston-Salem, it is centuries away from this contemporary urban center.
Visitors to the historic North Carolina town travel back more than 250 years to experience 100 of America’s … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Education & Tours, Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Travel, Urban Agriculture
Tags: 18th century homes and gardens, heirloom vegetables, old salem, travel
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March 8, 2016

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Updated 2024
Although Old Salem is just a 10-minute drive from Winston-Salem, it’s centuries away from the city’s contemporary urban center.
Visitors to the historic North Carolina town travel back more than 250 years to experience … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Education & Tours, Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Travel, Urban Agriculture
Tags: 18th century homes and gardens, heirloom vegetables, old salem, travel
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July 10, 2015
Pulltab Design. Photography by Bilyana Dimitrova
Summer is here and that means plenty of barbecuing and cocktail sipping out in the back yard! Or, if you’re very lucky, you have a rooftop garden to lounge on. We’ve rounded up some … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
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December 30, 2014

With the snap of the finger and the blink of an eye, another year comes to an end. What were a few of your favorite things? These ten blog posts apparently.
Here’s a glimpse of what your Urban Gardens community … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
Tags: 10 garden finds, Bee Habitat, Biodegradable Products, Bird Habitat, concrete planters, Corten Steel, DIY, Hydroponic Indoor Gardens, Hydroponics, Jean Nouvel, outdoor furniture, Patrick Blanc, succulent planters, sustainability, sustainable architecture, sustainable design, Upcycle, upcycling, vertical gardening, Vertical Gardens
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November 19, 2014

When iconic French architect Jean Nouvel and his botanist and landscape “artist” colleague and friend Patrick Blanc collaborate, you can expect a novel and cutting edge statement combining the best of their respective talents with the latest in green technologies, … Read More...
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: architecture, Ateliers, Biomimicry, CTBUH, Heliostat, Hydroponics, Jean Nouvel, sustainability, sustainable architecture, sustainable design, urban green
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June 30, 2014

What was once an historic movie theater within the green Parco Trivisio of Milan’s fashionable Brera design district, debuted last year as a secret garden and wellness concept lab for Gessi, the Italian Private Wellness Company.

Photo: Gessi
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Category: Experiencing
Tags: BlogTour, BlogTour Milan, Gessi, Salone di Mobile 2014
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June 1, 2014
Caesarstone featured Urban Islands incorporating plants directly into the solid surface. Image by Caesarstone.
Green was trending everywhere during last month’s Milan Design Week 2014. Stylish, sustainable, and integrated edible and ornamental indoor gardens and microgardens sprouted everywhere. And I … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Experiencing, Green Walls, Herb Gardens, Hydroponics, Indoor Gardening, Vertical Gardens
Tags: BlogTour Milan, BlogTour Milano, Eurocucina, kitchen gardens, Modenus, NKBA, salone del mobile 2014, under-counter greenhouse, urban cultivator
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