December 22, 2013
© Sandra Alcorn 2014
Tasmanian fashion designer Sandra Alcorn’s studio looks out onto “a slightly unkempt but enchanting garden.” Each season serves as new inspiration for Alcorn’s horticouture collection of tiny dresses and gowns she fashions from the garden’s flowers … Read More...
Category: Creating
Tags: dresses from flowers, fashion meets floral design, flower couture, garden greeting cards, greeting cards from flowrs, nature-inspired design, Tasmanian fashion designer
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December 20, 2013
Photo via Kier Homes.
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Last year my husband gave me a shiny new bike for Christmas. I’m embarrassed to confess that I have not yet ridden it. He put it under the tree again last year, and if I … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
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December 19, 2013
If you’ve ever wanted your container gardening efforts to be less about labor, and more about love, here’s your chance.
Update 7/2022: This product is no longer in production, but here is a similar space-saving and collapsible fabric planter.
The … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Great Finds, Reclaimed & Recycled
Tags: Hula Perfect Planter, OxiTitan, Sanctuary Soil, self-cleaning planter, space-saving planter
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December 18, 2013
UK maker and friend, Geoff Fisher, has just announced two new additions to his popular artisan-crafted Trook family of hand whittled hooks.
Fisher makes his new artisan-crafted Slingshot and Brush from the same local Beech and other woods he uses … Read More...
Category: Finding
Tags: artisan-crafted, British artisan wood crafter, Geoff Fisher, locally-sourced woods, rustic handle brushes, Slingshot, Trooks, UK artisan wood crafter
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December 11, 2013
I’m not in Milan right now, but if I were I’d be heading to Design Supermarket. It’s an über cool holiday pop-up shop featuring the works of eleven emerging designers who exhibited their work at SaloneSatellite 2013, part of the … Read More...
Category: Containers and Pots, Finding, Reclaimed & Recycled, shopping, Travel
Tags: cool outdoor chairs, Design Supermarket, flower vases, head-shaped vases, Italian industrial design, Milan, SaloneSatellite
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December 5, 2013
Luciano Giobbilei project in Barcelona.
Urban gardening is on the increase. And no more so than in Europe, where some remarkable talents are driving many of the world’s urban gardening trends.
Urban Gardens sponsor, Elspeth Briscoe, founder of MyGardenSchool (formerly … Read More...
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Guerilla Gardening!
Tags: gardening books, gardening classes, guerrilla gardening, guerrilla gardens, Lurie Gardens, New York High Line, online gardening courses, Piet Oudolf, trend-setting European urban garden designers, urban gardening, urban gardening trends, urban parks, virtual garden courses, virtual gardening courses
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December 2, 2013
Oh how j’adore the verdant marriage of design and horticulture in French designer Benjamin Pawlica’s Deltaflore plantable concrete green wall tiles. (You may have noticed that I’m a little obsessed with indoor-outdoor concrete everything these days.)
Just think about the … Read More...
Category: Finding, Green Walls, Indoor Gardening, Vertical Gardens
Tags: Benjamin Pawlica, beton, Beton LCDA, concrete living walls, concrete tile vertical garden, concrete tiles, concrete wall tiles, Deltaflore living walls, green facades, indoor-outdoor vertical garden, living walls, modular concrete tiles, plantable concrete tiles, planted concrete tiles, vegetal wall tiles, vertical garden tiles
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December 1, 2013
Well known for Phytokinetic, the über cool green roof system he designed for city buses, Spanish landscape designer and friend Marc Grañèn also creates beautiful and functional botanical works of art.
When I visited Spain last summer, Marc shared with … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Irrigation, Vertical Gardens
Tags: Costa Brava, drip irrigation, living succulent wall, living wall, Marc Grañèn, outdoor shower, rainwater catchment, rainwater harvesting, Spanish landscape designer, succulent gardens, succulents, sustainable design, sustainable landscape design, underground cistern, vertical succulent garden, vivers clavisa
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November 27, 2013
Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton for Urban Gardens.
Spotted last week after my son and I had just jaywalked across a Cambridge, Massachusetts street: a law-abiding wild turkey crossing at a crosswalk.
We did get a chuckle right before Thanksgiving as … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
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November 26, 2013
What began as a child’s game between 12-year-old Xavier Mañosa and his father, has today emerged as the Pussel, a multi-functional design that is at once an indoor-outdoor lantern, flower vase, and votive candle holder.
The modular ceramic and glass … Read More...
Category: Finding, Lighting
Tags: candles, indoor-outdoor, multi-functional, votives
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