Urban Gardens

Japanese artist, Takaya, fashions vegetables and fruits into edible headgear.

Fashion trends have always had an influence on other industries, including culinary, interior design, and even gardening. Growing food is inexorably linked to cooking and its presentation a reflection of … Read More...

Banner made from vintage fabrics from ArtToGo.

For years we hosted a huge barbecue in the front garden of our Connecticut house next to the park where the town launches its Fourth of July fireworks display.

We’d provide the main … Read More...

Even in a contemporary garden, these rustic twig plant markers would be a nice accent.

I love mixing it up–rustic with sleek, shiny with matte, new with old. I’m going to include some twig elements in my summer decor, both … Read More...

It’s no surprise that Williams-Sonoma, one of the country’s foremost retailers of cooking equipment, would now venture outside the kitchen into the garden. With the launch on April 5 of their new seed-to-table concept, Agrarian, the brand will become … Read More...

Cupid knows I’ve written before about my friend, UK artist Geoff Fisher’s Trooks–hooks he whittles from the wood of fallen trees around his property. For Valentine’s Day, a local restaurant, Artichoke, commissioned Fisher to create pairs of Trooks cut … Read More...