Urban Gardens

Three Double Knock Out® Roses surrounded by their own foliage. Photo: Robin Horton, Urban Gardens.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
–Antoine Saint-Exupéry

I always thought roses were the … Read More...

Even in a contemporary garden, these rustic twig plant markers would be a nice accent.

I love mixing it up–rustic with sleek, shiny with matte, new with old. I’m going to include some twig elements in my summer decor, both … Read More...

If you can grow food in a spacecraft, you can do so in the confines of a small urban space. Developed by NASA and readapted by Italian studio, Design Libero, the Green Wheel is a rotary hydroponic system concept … Read More...

For Milan Design Week 2012 at the Instant Stories exhibition by DMY in Ventura Lambrate, Berlin and Singapore-based architect Werner Aisslinger unveiled his Chair Farm–a living “plantation chair” produced in an agricultural lab.

The steel corset trains the vine.… Read More...

Opera, an über-luxurious mobile tent, was part of my curated piece for Very Short List. Photo: YSIN.

I was honored to be today’s curator for one of my favorite sites, Very Short List. It’s a cool daily e-mail that … Read More...

Funny how some people find their passions. After tripping over an overgrown creeper’s tendril in 2008 and fracturing his hip, Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer, Joe Paine, was inspired to design products for plants.

Kreep Planter System by Joe Paine.… Read More...

The slatted seating surface of François de Vecchis’s Eco Wave Bench for GrupoHewi supports the bench’s modular Hi-Mac tapered triangular pots.

Containers function interchangeably as planters, a cooler to hold ice and drinks, or to hold various other items … Read More...

I’m smitten by Parisian designer Thomas Grenier’s à Partager–a vertical planting system and arbor that integrates both potted plants and vines. Seed, sow, and shade yourself with this great multifunctional design for any size outdoor space or garden.

Its … Read More...

The trend-setting Paris urban garden and exterior design fair, Jardins Jardin, opens tomorrow in the Tuilerie Gardens outside the Louvre.  I will share with you in a series of posts some of my favorite picks from among the cool … Read More...

The Adriance Farmhouse is in need of restoration. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton, Urban Gardens.

A working farm dating back to 1697, The Queens County Farm Museum’s 47-acres constitute the longest continuously farmed parcel of land in New York State–farmed … Read More...