Modular Vertical Garden Brings Green to Urban Walls

April 2, 2011

Urbio is a new magnetic-backed and modular vertical garden system that easily enables you to bring green to empty urban walls. As urban dwellers, or those who live and work in small spaces, it can be difficult to find … Read More...

Gardens Flourish on Top of City Busses

February 1, 2011

Bus Roots is a living garden planted on the roofs of city buses. Similar to Spanish designer Marc Grañen’s Phytokinetic system of vehicle rooftop gardens, this conceptual project arose from New York City designer Marco Antonio Castro Cosio’s graduate … Read More...

Dining “Pod” With Vertical Garden Wall

November 28, 2010

As a focal point for the dining “pod” of their client’s newly renovated duplex apartment, PullTab Design designed a custom planted vertical garden wall.

I like how the green wall wraps around the side of the stairway. The plants offer … Read More...

Self-Watering Solar Vertical Growing System

August 15, 2010

Do you love gardening on auto-pilot? The Aussies have a cool product that has made its way Stateside. The CLEV-A 9 Pot garden is a sustainable, vertical growing system that uses a solar-powered, gravity-fed, automated watering system to deliver specific … Read More...

Inside Peek at New York Urban Gardens

July 13, 2010

I admit I was riddled with garden envy when I attended an urban gardens tour a few weeks ago presented by the French Institute Alliance Française of New York as part of their Art de Vivre series. Curated by Marie-Dominique … Read More...

Vertical Farming on Rise for Urban Food Supply

July 9, 2010


Valcent Product’s VertiCrop system of hanging gardens

By 2050 more than 80% of the world’s population is expected to be living in urban areas. How will we feed them? Vertical farming offers a highly effective, sustainable, and cost-efficient solution. On … Read More...

Vertical Vegetable Garden Rises in Style

June 25, 2010

Vertical gardening is on the rise. French designer, Germain Bourré, has created a stunning green wall solution with his Etagères Potagères, a vegetable garden system composed of stacking coated steel shelving modules that offers great placement and design … Read More...

Vertical Aquaponic Gardening Takes Shape

March 5, 2010

The Sun Curve, from Inca Biospheric Systems, is a closed loop vertical aquaponic micro farm (yes, that’s a mouthful) powered by solar panels, a wind turbine, and a battery bank. It grows plants vertically using water from its fish pond … Read More...

Living Walls Flourish in Urban Gardens

March 3, 2010


Inca Wall Garden surrounds terrace

Vertical gardens and living walls are of increasing interest to urban gardeners looking to maximize their garden space for harvesting their own food or for simply beautifying their surroundings. A ‘growing’ trend, there are several … Read More...

Echos of Eco in Mexico City’s Vertical Park

January 9, 2010

vertical_park_mexico

They paved paradise then put up a…vertical park.

Mexican architect Jorge Hernandez de la Garcia has designed a modular, highly structural and flexible vertical park intended to help reduce pollution and deal with overpopulation issues. The tower utilizes vertically stacked … Read More...

The freshest innovative and eco-friendly designs, trends, and ideas for urban gardens and stylish small places.

Visit Robin Horton @UrbanGardens's profile on Pinterest.