Urban Gardens

As I love double-duty designs for small and light-deprived spaces, Mygdal Plantlight fits the bill functioning as both a light fixture and planter. The lamp is a terrarium-like completely self-sustaining ecosystem where, the designers contend, plants can grow for … Read More...

A floating food forest on a 50-foot platform made from shipping containers will dock in New York City waters throughout 2016.

Public Food in Public Space
Swale is a collaborative floating urban food project dedicated to rethinking and challenging New … Read More...

Sponsored by Visit Winston-Salem

Old Salem is just a 10-minute drive from Winston-Salem, yet it’s centuries away from the city’s contemporary urban center.

Visitors to the historic North Carolina town travel back 250 years to experience 100 of America’s most … Read More...

Now in its 14th year, Fiskars Project Orange Thumb^® awards cash and garden tools to community groups across North America and Canada. I am honored to be on their editorial board for the second consecutive year where I helped … Read More...

What better place to view a beautiful cityscape than from a rooftop? Well you can do just that in Stockholm. Rooftop Tours offers the adventurous an opportunity to experience the Swedish capital’s skyline from 141 feet (47 meters) above.

As … Read More...

Bespoke Insect Hotel, Geoffrey Fisher.

The following article by Robin Plaskoff Horton originally appeared on Fix.com:

At any given time, your garden might contain over 2,000 species of insects. Some of these are pests, the kind you don’t want in … Read More...

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.

1. … Read More...

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...

Sure, Valentine’s Day is a commercial holiday cluttered with stacks of sparkly cards, boxes of candy hearts, and teddy bears bearing signs professing love. But there’s no need to be a curmudgeon about it.

Valentine’s Day gifts don’t have to … Read More...