Mobile App for Green Thumbing Your Way Through NYC

April 1, 2011

GardenSpace NYC, a cool interactive field guide to Manhattan’s publically accessible parks and gardens, by Brooklyn-based Landscape Design Firm, Green Sky Designs, brings city dwellers closer to their urban ecosystem, bridging the gap between the plugged-in pace of the … Read More...

Create Your Own Design Mood Board

October 12, 2010

I just found out about OlioBoard, a site on which for free you can create your own mood board to experiment with styles, colors, products. I created the mood board above by browsing their library of thousands of items … Read More...

From Dustpan to Garden

August 17, 2010

Better hanging in your urban garden than in a landfill, yes? We’ve seen all sorts of discarded items breathe new life as garden containers, and some, like this vintage dustpan spotted on Etsy, as vertical gardens. Do you have … Read More...

iPhone Garden App for Math-Challenged Gardeners

August 3, 2010

For the math-challenged gardeners among us, there’s an app for that.

The Garden Buddy iPhone garden app features several handy calculators and useful planting information. Using the native GPS location services on the iPhone, it provides a location-based real-time search

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Does Money Grow on Your Trees?

May 7, 2010

Want to know the environmental and economic value your trees provide on an annual basis? The Tree Benefit Calculator allows you to make this simple estimation. Input your location by zip code to find your climate zone, add the tree

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