March 7, 2014
New York City rooftop gardens, design and photo by PullTab Design.
With your busy life, it’s highly possible you missed one of the wonderful things we’ve shared recently on Urban Gardens. Understandable. The good news is, we’ve rounded up the … Read More...
Category: Composting, Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Hydroponics, Indoor Gardening, Lighting, Reclaimed & Recycled, Sky Planters, Vertical Gardens
Tags: bidegradable lamp, composatable, compostable lamp shade, hydroponic lighting, hydroponic planter fixture, Jardins Jardin, palnted lighting, Paris, planted light fixture, vegetative lighting
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February 19, 2014

Add this botanical tiled vertical garden space to the list of wonderful places to sneak off to for an afternoon rendezvous. I think a comfy mattress on the interior platform would be just the place for a nap en plein … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Greening, No-Dig Gardening, Public Gardens, Vertical Gardens
Tags: botanical tiles, Container Gardening, environment, French landscape designers, garden shows, garden structures, Jardin Jardin, Paris, planters, sustainable design, Tuileries Gardens, vertical gardening
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December 29, 2013

Urban Gardens readers and followers have spoken. In 2013, vertical gardens continued to reign in popularity, as did outdoor and indoor edible gardens, some of which were climbing the walls.
You loved concrete as much as I did, and the … Read More...
Category: Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Green Walls, Guerilla Gardening!, Reclaimed & Recycled, Travel, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
Tags: edible gardening, European garden design, garden destinations, garden travel, outdoor showers, succulent gardends, succulent wall, top 10 urban gardens posts, urban gardens, Vertical Gardens
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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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October 15, 2013

When you see them, don’t you just itch to turn some wasted urban spaces into lush green outdoor rooms and edible gardens? That must be what German design collective Thinking Hands thought when they designed Hochbeet, a raised bed planter … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Edible Landscaping, Finding, Garden Design, Herb Gardens, No-Dig Gardening, Raised Beds, Urban Agriculture
Tags: easy to assemble planters, modular planters, portable planters
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October 8, 2013

Pflix is like a vertical garden doing yoga. Designer Christian Heufelder’s modular planting system has the kind of flexibility that I want after an hour of stretching.

Adaptive to even the most space deprived conditions, the system strikes a number … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Edible Landscaping, Finding, Garden Design, Herb Gardens, Urban Agriculture
Tags: balcony gardening, balcony gardens, garden unique, modular planters, spoga+gafa, urban gardening, vertical gardening, Vertical Gardens
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September 15, 2013

Here’s how to create an urban garden in a snap. A couple of friends, a designer, and two “produce evangelists” from Portland, Oregon (where else, right?) have joined forces to develop a Lego-like modular system for making easy-to-assemble raised beds… Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Edible Landscaping, Finding, Garden Design, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, No-Dig Gardening, Raised Beds, Reclaimed & Recycled, Square-Foot Gardening, Urban Agriculture
Tags: mobile garden containers, modular containers, portable, recycled materials, snap together
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July 27, 2013

The word “Opus” refers to creation or works of art, an encompassing, open-to-interpretation definition that suited what Marissa Pretorius hoped to do with her life.

“I did not want to be bound by the name, but rather have a creative … Read More...
Category: Bulbs and Plants, Container Gardening, Finding, Garden Design, Sky Planters
Tags: Container Gardening, flower shop, hanging gardens, indoor gardening, indoor gardens, indoor plants, Kodedama, New Zealand, plants, string gardens, succulents, suspended gardens, urban gardens
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July 14, 2013

These days, we find gardens in unconventional places, from highway median dividers to old parking lots. The City of Barcelona has elevated growing plants to an art form in unlikely places, transforming newly exposed party walls into lush vertical gardens. … Read More...
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Garden Design, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Greening, Irrigation, Lifestyle, Permaculture, Travel, Vertical Gardens
Tags: "vegitecture", Barcelona, bidiversity, City of Barcelona, Costa Brava, drip irrigation, green architecture, green facades, living walls, party walls, Spain, Spain tourism, travel, Urban wildlife
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June 1, 2013

Hey apartment and small space dwellers, here’s an easy DIY compact hydroponic indoor farm system you can make with repurposed off-the-shelf IKEA storage boxes.

ELIOOO is not a product, it’s architect and designer Antonio Scarponi’s cleverly conceived and designed instruction … Read More...
Category: Books, Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Creating, Green & Sustainable, Green Gadgets, Herb Gardens, Hydroponics, Reclaimed & Recycled, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens, Window Boxes
Tags: Container Gardening, crowdfunded design, Ikea hacking, indoor gardens, organic gardening, planters, sustainable, sustainable agriculture, sustainable design, urban farming, urban garden, vegetable gardening, vegetable gardens
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