Urban Gardens

Your garden will eat these up: gourmet herb seed ball pops. Just as you would do with their Garden Bon Bons, you simply remove the wrapper, place in a sunny spot, water, and watch your choice of four herbs … Read More...

After two snowstorms, New Yorkers might be happy to escape the cold by stepping into the 73 degree warmth of a new indoor pop-up park. If they can make an indoor park here, they can make it anywhere. New York, … Read More...

Ronel Jordaan’s felt rocks.

When in Paris last year, I posted about similar felt rocks I saw at Maison et Objet that blurred the boundaries between exterior and interior. I love influencing a room’s design with elements from the garden … Read More...

We had another 14 inches of snow last night. My dachshunds had to be rescued when they disappeared into the depths of it, but the tall drifts and large accumulations left some nice little winter gifts.

This plant pokes through … Read More...

Exploring the role of women in landscape architecture, the documentary film, Women in the Dirt, takes us behind the scenes with seven of California’s most influential female designers: Mia Lerher, Andrea Cochran, Cheryl Barton, Isabelle Greene, Katherine Spitz, Pamela … Read More...

Photo by Julie Moo

I once had a neighbor whose front garden featured a lovely planted rowboat. She eventually moved and so did the boat. It got me thinking about people using these out of commission vessels in their gardens. … Read More...

If you are one who believes that some of the best things in life are free, then the Towa by Swedish startup Guldkannan is for you.

The Towa is a device to help gardeners around the world put the nitrogen-rich … Read More...

In may part of the world, the ground is covered in snow, but I look forward to Spring when I can picnic in the park. To debut at the IMM Cologne design fair on January 18, Vial’s new Fido folding … Read More...

Photo: Ken Lennox

Towering 25 ft above the ground, a 20 x 10ft flower basket known as ‘The Hanging Gardens of Paddington’, contains over 100 different varieties of plants and flowers, including orchids, roses, ivy, daisies, gerberas, ferns, conifers and … Read More...

Photo by Robin Plaskoff Horton

Amid the glimmer and twinkle of tiny lights, G-scale model trains chug along a half-mile of track circling 140 miniature landmark buildings constructed entirely of natural materials including, bark, twigs, seeds, fruits, nuts, vines, mosses, … Read More...