Five Ideas for Creating a Colorful Fall Garden

November 6, 2012


Radiant fall colors. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton, Urban Gardens.

With autumn in full swing and trees and plants ablaze with a burnished rainbow of gold, bronze, copper and ruby, nature has handed us a glorious palette of molten metal shades Read More...

Grow a Fence

November 5, 2012

Piantalà is a grow-your-own fence, a plant trellis, a partition, a privacy screen, a place to hang stuff and a super versatile concept for growing both vertically and horizontally.

Created from a metal rod that graphically mimics the … Read More...

Minimalist Style Breathable Concrete Garden Planters

November 3, 2012


Eternit, the creative Swiss brand behind the whimsical Relax Man planter featured in our Container Porn post, produces their Palma planter of their patented version of Fibercement–a composite concrete material made of sand, cement and cellulose fibers often used … Read More...

Cool Indoor-Outdoor Modular Cylinder Planters

November 1, 2012

Update 6/2022: This product is no longer available, but another similar system is available here. However, you can still draw inspiration and get ideas from this post!

As soon as I saw the Décor Fiori Cylinders, it was instant love.Read More...

Inventive Planted Stone Seating

October 22, 2012

I love Philippe Nigro’s stone Saturnia bench for Piba Marmi’s Monocromo exhibit at Italian design trade fair Abitare il Tempo.

Envision the center planter filled with Piet Oudolf-inspired blend of grasses alongside swathes of Nepeta, and a dash of purple … Read More...

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