June 25, 2010
Vertical gardening is on the rise. French designer, Germain Bourré, has created a stunning green wall solution with his Etagères Potagères, a vegetable garden system composed of stacking coated steel shelving modules that offers great placement and design … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Garden Design, Green Walls, Vertical Gardens
Tags: edible gardening, green, modular edible gardens, modular gardens, modular green wall system, modular vegetable garden system, modular vertical garden system, stacking green wall, stacking vegetable garden, stacking vertical garden, stacking wall garden, wall garden
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June 20, 2010
A group of Dutch artists have made Amsterdam a little greener with the launch in March of the Mobile Gardens, an initiative to promote vertical gardening with citizens of Amsterdam New West.
The mobile garden project, created by artists Jair … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Container Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Sky Planters, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
Tags: green, hanging gardens, mobile allotment, mobile community gardens, mobile gardens, Public Gardens, public green spaces
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June 8, 2010
Good green things come in extremely small packages. Marque Cornblatt on Gomi Style, a do-it-yourself blog, posted some wonderful wee gardens planted in recycled Altoid and other tiny candy tins: “These tiny succulent cuttings and small herbs seem to … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Garden Art, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Reclaimed & Recycled
Tags: ecodesign, garden jewelry, green, miniature gardens, reclaimed, tiny container gardens, tiny gardens
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May 20, 2010
Spotted on Instructables, this mobile garden-on-wheels is a stylish step up from planting in a wheel barrel.
The only available sunlight in the designer’s property was right in front of his garage door. Necessity, being the mother of invention, … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Creating, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Raised Beds, Reclaimed & Recycled, Urban Agriculture
Tags: garden-on-wheels, green, mobile vegetable cart
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May 8, 2010
Photo by Karan Verma
Put mom in harmony with nature this Mother’s Day by offering her some gifts and experiences that pamper, entertain, and indulge.
Pamper Her au Naturel
On the Green Spa Network you can find an environmentally friendly … Read More...
Category: Apparel, Finding, Food & Entertaining, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable
Tags: garden gifts, gardening gloves, green, green spa products, Mother's Day Green Gifts, natural gifts, urban farms, women's gardening gloves
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March 30, 2010
Metal topped tables with driftwood feet
When I think of driftwood, I think of a hideous glass topped driftwood table that graced some of my friend’s homes where I grew up near the beach in California. This was before anyone … Read More...
Category: Finding, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Outdoor Furniture, Reclaimed & Recycled
Tags: green, reuse, sustainable furniture
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March 26, 2010
With 110 transparent plastic food containers filled with leaves, branches, and a lighting source, “Packaged Vertical Gardens” climb the walls in Madrid, an urban vertical garden installation as commentary on the scarcity of available public green space.
In seeking to … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Uncategorized, Vertical Gardens
Tags: green, Greening, urban green, vertical garden
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March 24, 2010
Primroses are literally blooming on the streets of Oxford, England. “If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the road,” says Britain’s self-proclaimed pothole gardener, Pete Dungey. Guerrilla gardening efforts such … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Green & Sustainable
Tags: green, Guerilla Gardening!, guerrilla gardening, urban gardens
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January 27, 2010
Patrick Blanc vertical garden wall behind glass at Marité et François Girbaud shop in Paris
It’s been a week of creative inspiration and as I pack it all up from Paris for my to return to New York, I will … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Herb Gardens, No-Dig Gardening, Sky Planters, Vertical Gardens
Tags: green, hanging gardens, indoor gardening, mobile garden containers, Paris gardens, plant containers, potting tables, urban gardens
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January 9, 2010
They paved paradise then put up a…vertical park.
Mexican architect Jorge Hernandez de la Garcia has designed a modular, highly structural and flexible vertical park intended to help reduce pollution and deal with overpopulation issues. The tower utilizes vertically stacked … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Green Walls, Greening, Irrigation, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
Tags: green, rainwater harvesting, rainwater reclamation, susatinable, urban architecture, urban gardens, urban greening
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