September 21, 2020
My friend, the garden designer, author, and speaker, Rebecca Sweet, transformed an old disused backyard garden shed into a cozy home office and retreat. Via Rebecca Sweet, Harmony in the Garden.
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July 30, 2020

Hidden within a 6.4-acre botanical garden in Mexico City’s Santa Marîa la Ribera district lies an abandoned factory transformed into as a vast greenhouse garden filled with aromatic native plants.


The disused space is on the grounds of the botanical … Read More...
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June 28, 2020

This puts the culture in horticulture: After a three month shutdown, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened with an audience of 2,292 plants.

During the theater’s Concierto Para el Bioceno (Concert for the Biocene), those planted in their … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Indoor Gardening, Travel
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June 26, 2020

The novel Cornavirus has inspired some novel ideas. From personal glass greenhouses at an Amsterdam restaurant, stuffed pandas occupying chairs in a Bangkok eatery, to pool noodle hats at a cafe in Germany, people are exercising their collective creativity to … Read More...
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Lifestyle, Public Gardens, Travel
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