Plantus Please: Modular Indoor Vertical Gardens

July 17, 2015

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Budapest-based designer Judit Zita Boros designed Plantus Planters, a system of modular indoor vertical gardens, with indoor urban gardeners in mind.

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Planted Walls and Living Curtains

These modular indoor vertical gardens are double-duty systems which not only offers the … Read More...

Hydroponic Vertical Gardens and Heliostats Flourish on Sustainable Skyscraper

November 19, 2014

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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...

Vertical Gardens With Supernatural Healing Powers

December 11, 2012

We’ve discussed before the benefits of plants and vertical gardens–how they can not only beautify indoor and outdoor spaces, but can help decrease energy usage by providing insulation, improve indoor air quality, even provide a place to grow Read More...

Vertical Gardens for Birds

February 15, 2011

Send out a signal to urban birds so they’ll flock to your balcony for a place to feed within the backdrop of a vertical garden. The Plantenna from Berlin-based company, Rephorm, is a combo bird feeder and plant trellis … Read More...

Suspended Vertical Gardens

November 8, 2010

Hanging from adjustable cables, the Etcetera vertical garden system from French company, La Corbeille, forms a planted curtain where you can grow your own edibles or ornamentals while also creating privacy screening indoors or out. The modular use of … Read More...

Dutch Artists Plant Public Mobile Vertical Gardens

June 20, 2010

A group of Dutch artists have made Amsterdam a little greener with the launch in March of the Mobile Gardens, an initiative to promote vertical gardening with citizens of Amsterdam New West.

The mobile garden project, created by artists Jair Read More...

Vertical Gardens Direct From Your Grocery Aisle

March 26, 2010

With 110 transparent plastic food containers filled with leaves, branches, and a lighting source, “Packaged Vertical Gardens” climb the walls in Madrid, an urban vertical garden installation as commentary on the scarcity of available public green space.

In seeking to … Read More...

Urban Gardens Most Epic Holiday Gift Guide Is Here!

December 3, 2022

Urban Gardens Holiday Gift Guide

For whatever and whomever you celebrate, indoors or out, here’s my biggest and greatest ever holiday gift guide packed with handpicked stylish, functional, and just plain fun home and garden gifts.

 

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Shear style with these comfortable … Read More...

Big Ideas For Optimizing Small Space Gardens

November 9, 2021

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Here’s your dilemma: You’d love an outdoor living space and garden but have a postage-stamp-sized patch of patio, balcony, porch or terrace with no earth in which to plant anything. It’s time to expand your thinking as small … Read More...

Urban Gardens Valentine’s Day Gift Guide

February 7, 2021

Valentine’s Day is a good excuse (not that we ever need one) to celebrate a significant or sorta-significant other, and don’t forget dear friends. Stay home, break out some bubbly and raise a glass to those you appreciate and love. Read More...

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