August 17, 2020
A small socially distanced group gathered at Alice’s Garden Urban Farm in Milwaukee as blacksmith Fred Martin gripped a piece of red-hot steel from the forge and placed it on an anvil. He then pummeled the piece of metal, a … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
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August 12, 2020
Garden pots and planters come in a lot of sizes, shapes, styles and materials, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Whether yours is a small urban container garden or one that’s part of a large suburban patio, when it … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Creating, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, No-Dig Gardening, Raised Beds, Rooftop Gardens
Tags: bacsac, Container Gardening, container gardens, gardening gifts, Gifts for Gardeners, lightweight concrete, metal planters, planters, plastic planters, resin planters, stone planters, terra cotta planters, textile fabric planter bags, wood planters
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August 7, 2020
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With more time spent homebound these days, many folks are bringing their laptops outside, turning their gardens and yards into outdoor offices. An uneven, spotty, and not-so-green lawn isn’t such a pretty sight but this forced … Read More...
Category: Composting, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Irrigation, Water
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July 30, 2020
Hidden within a 6.4-acre botanical garden in Mexico City’s Santa Marîa la Ribera district lies an abandoned factory transformed into as a vast greenhouse garden filled with aromatic native plants.
The disused space is on the grounds of the botanical … Read More...
Category: Green & Sustainable, Greening, Lifestyle, Public Gardens, Travel
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July 22, 2020
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After extended periods of sheltering in place and working from home, many folks are really appreciating the physical and mental health benefits of spending time outdoors. Urban dwellers are heading to parks and open green spaces, and those … Read More...
Category: Creating, Garden Design, Raised Beds
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July 9, 2020
How will the pandemic change the design of public parks and gardens? Many of these much-loved spaces around the world are closed to prevent the spread of Covid-19, and officials continue to grapple with how to safely reopen… Read More...
Category: Experiencing
Tags: gardens, green spaces, parks, public spaces, social distancing
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July 4, 2020
In the age of coronavirus, entertaining and social distancing outdoors around a fire pit is the perfect solution. Socializing in fresh air is safer and healthier too: one’s chances of catching the virus are twenty times lower outdoors than indoors … Read More...
Category: Finding, Food & Entertaining
Tags: Fire Bowls, Fire Pits
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June 28, 2020
This puts the culture in horticulture: After a three month shutdown, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened with an audience of 2,292 plants.
During the theater’s Concierto Para el Bioceno (Concert for the Biocene), those planted in their … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Indoor Gardening, Travel
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June 26, 2020
The novel Cornavirus has inspired some novel ideas. From personal glass greenhouses at an Amsterdam restaurant, stuffed pandas occupying chairs in a Bangkok eatery, to pool noodle hats at a cafe in Germany, people are exercising their collective creativity to … Read More...
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Lifestyle, Public Gardens, Travel
Tags: coronavirus, covid, social distancing
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June 3, 2020
Photo, copyright 2020 by Lori Shaull, Flickr, under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 license.
I write about design, living and places for everyone from all walks of life. Right now people all over the world are mourning. They’re angry. They … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
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