August 12, 2020
Garden pots and planters come in a lot of sizes, shapes, styles and materials, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Whether yours is a small urban container garden or one that’s part of a large suburban patio, when it … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Creating, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, No-Dig Gardening, Raised Beds, Rooftop Gardens
Tags: bacsac, Container Gardening, container gardens, gardening gifts, Gifts for Gardeners, lightweight concrete, metal planters, planters, plastic planters, resin planters, stone planters, terra cotta planters, textile fabric planter bags, wood planters
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March 1, 2016
Runner Up for Core77 Design Awards in Built Environments.
”A collaboration between architects, designers, and technologists who are building new ways of interacting with nature,” say Plant-in City architects Huy Bui, Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena, and Jon Schramm about
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Category: Creating
Tags: modular planters, planters, urban art installations
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February 26, 2016
Naturalist designers in St. Petersburg, Russia are creating innovative planters, vases, vessels and other objects for plants. They’ve got planters that hang and climb walls, vases with their own shelves, geometric multi-pot units, and even planters inspired by Sputnik.
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Category: Containers and Pots, Great Finds, Uncategorized
Tags: design, naturalists, Planter Design, planters, russian designers
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January 31, 2016
It was apparent during my recent visit to the design show Maison & Objet in Paris, that furniture and home accessories brands traditionally known for interior products are venturing outdoors.
As evidence of the trend toward indoor-outdoor living, the show … Read More...
Category: Finding
Tags: concrete furniture, garden hoses, hanging gardens, indoor-outdoor design, Maison & Objet 2016, paris design, planters
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January 12, 2016
Crumpled Tyvek and cast concrete take on organic forms to become wall tile planters in the hands of San Antonio, Texas-based architect/designer, Taeg Nishimoto.
Inspired by geological formations observed in satellite images, SEED takes on unpredictable shapes when Nishimoto creates … Read More...
Category: Creating
Tags: concrete planters, planters, Vertical Gardens
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August 19, 2015
For those of us who have downsized to smaller digs where space is at a premium, there’s a new self-watering modular pot system for growing plants, herbs and flowers indoors in compact areas.
Connect a Pot fits well into the … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Indoor Gardening, Sky Planters
Tags: garden technology, planters, pots., self-watering
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February 11, 2015
Did the most romantic person on Earth swoop into a bathroom and create this swoon-worthy scene for the object of their adoration? Personally, I don’t care what the circumstances were. This is such a gorgeous idea, and it should get … Read More...
Category: Finding
Tags: ABC das Suculentas, Air Plants, Allison Kreft, bird feeders, Boston Pizza, Chocolatnegrodesign, Creative Wreaths, DIY, DIY Valentines Day, gardens, Gifts for Gardeners, J@monkey, Love, Lucky Bamboo, Peacock Taco, planters, succulents, Valentines Day, Valentines Day Gifts, Wreaths
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January 3, 2015
The Life of Plants is proof that you can’t tell a book by its cover. Flip it open to reveal the soil from which sprouts a living, breathing, narrative.
Designer Yasuko Furukawa’s planter/flower pot thrives incognito, at home among the … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Indoor Gardening
Tags: Ambiente, BlogTourAmbiente, containers, design fairs, Frankfurt, Japanese design, Modenus, planters
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December 14, 2014
In the hands of Parsons School of Design grads, Miriam Josi and Stella Lee Prowse, a local sail maker’s post-production sailcloth waste and scrap boat covers have been reborn as planters. Not just planters, but portable flat-folding, space-saving babes that … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Indoor Gardening, Sky Planters, Vertical Gardens
Tags: green design, Miriam Josi, Nomad, planter, planters, plants, recycle, Repurpose, reuse, Sailboat, Stella Lee Prowse, upcycled, upcycled design
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December 3, 2014
Drumroll! It’s that time of year and we’re excited to present our 2014 holiday gift guide, a curated list of 12 fun, functional, and fashionable items for home and garden. Have you been naughty or nice? No matter, we’re not … Read More...
Category: Finding
Tags: Authentic Haven Brand, bees, Crown Bees, Eartheasy, Garda Dibble, Garden Magazine, garden tools, Garden Trolly, Gift Guides, gifts, Gifts for Bee Lovers, Gifts for Gardeners, hanging planters, Hardwood Planter, holiday, holiday gifts, Manure Tea, Mason Bee, MODgreen, My Garden Posts, Pith + Vigor, planters, Potted, Raised Bed Vegetable Garden, RedHed, Seed Planting, sustainable, TerraTrellis, The Little Acre, trellis, Vertical Gardens
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