March 8, 2016
From Winston-Salem’s vibrant contemporary urban center, Old Salem is just a 10-minute drive, yet it’s centuries away. Visitors to the North Carolina historic town travel back 250 years to experience 100 of America’s most authentic and comprehensive collections of eighteenth-century … 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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December 1, 2015
It’s that time of year again and we’re excited to present our 2015 Holiday Gift Guide, a curated list of 15 fun, functional, and fashionable items for the home and garden! Have you been naughty or nice? We’re not judging. … Read More...
Category: Finding
Tags: Gift Guides, Gifts for Gardeners, holiday gifts, nature-inspired holiday gifts
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August 20, 2015
Italian Gianluca Pelizza’s Desert Veil, a wood-framed cube roofed with olive branches.
The Kehilla Residential Programme’s annual Sukkahville Design Competition invites architects, students, artists, builders and design professionals to submit design proposals for the design and construction of a contemporary … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
Tags: architecture, contemporary architecture, design competitions, Sukkah, Sukkot
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April 27, 2015
While not exactly nomadic, urban dwellers are known to be constantly on the go. It’s no surprise then that many urban gardens are designed to follow suit. With the roots to grow and the wings to fly, mobile gardens are … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Avant Gardeners, Food & Water 2030, gardening, Lisa Cheung, Marguerre-Besau, mobile gardens, Nils Holger Moormann, small green walls. small living walls, The flower truck, Urban Agriculture, urban gardens
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January 17, 2015
Brown thumbs beware, you may be in for an identity crisis. Growing indoor gardens has never been easier.
With the advancements in the technology and design for hydroponic and aquaponic gardening systems, we can take our pick of edible … Read More...
Category: Finding
Tags: Aerogardens, aeroponics, countertop hydroponic planter, Easy Gardens, Herbie, Hydropod, Hydroponic Gardens, Hydroponics, indoor gardens, Prepara Power Plant Pro, Root
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April 18, 2014
Bletilla striata. One of the many terrestrial orchids you can grow in your garden. Photo by Takashi Hososhima.
Beautiful. Ephemeral. Elusive. Fickle. Tantalizing. These are some of the words that come to mind when I think of orchids. Long … Read More...
Category: Bulbs and Plants, Garden Design, Lifestyle
Tags: Epiphytes, flowers, gardening, Lithophytes, Orchids, Terrestrials, urban gardens
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March 14, 2014
When San Francisco designer/entrepreneur Michael Good’s house plants began taking over most of his apartment’s available counter space, he realized that necessity (and Good design) would be the mother of his invention.
During an unsuccessful search for a hanging planter … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Indoor Gardening, Vertical Gardens
Tags: hanging planters, indoor gardening, indoor planters, self-irrigating planters, Vertical Gardens, wicking systems
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December 1, 2013
Well known for Phytokinetic, the über cool green roof system he designed for city buses, Spanish landscape designer and friend Marc Grañèn also creates beautiful and functional botanical works of art.
When I visited Spain last summer, Marc shared with … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Irrigation, Vertical Gardens
Tags: Costa Brava, drip irrigation, living succulent wall, living wall, Marc Grañèn, outdoor shower, rainwater catchment, rainwater harvesting, Spanish landscape designer, succulent gardens, succulents, sustainable design, sustainable landscape design, underground cistern, vertical succulent garden, vivers clavisa
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November 7, 2013
Prison garden. Photo by Benj Drummond and Sara Joy Steele.
When you think of urban gardens, you probably don’t picture prisons. But there’s a new trend in urban gardening, and prisons across the United States are climbing on board.
SPP … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Green & Sustainable, Permaculture, Urban Agriculture
Tags: correction facility gardens, prison farming, prison farming programs, prison farms, prison gardens, therapeutic gardens, vocational gardening
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September 11, 2013
Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton
What I love about travel is that it is about more than place, it’s about storytelling. Through stories, we visitors begin to absorb the essence of where we are, both historically and in the moment, and … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Vertical Gardens
Tags: Girona, girona hotel, Spain, travel
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