June 6, 2024
Category: Container Gardening, Education & Tours, Experiencing, Garden Design, Garden Tourism, Public Gardens, Travel
Tags: art installations, botanical art, Girona, Spain, Temps de Flors Festival
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September 4, 2016
Category: Container Gardening, Education & Tours, Experiencing, Garden Design, Garden Tourism, Public Gardens, Travel
Tags: art installations, botanical art, Girona, Spain, Temps de Flors Festival
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September 11, 2013
Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton
What I love about travel is that it is about more than place, it’s about storytelling. Through stories, we visitors begin to absorb the essence of where we are, both historically and in the moment, and … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Vertical Gardens
Tags: Girona, girona hotel, Spain, travel
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August 16, 2013
Lately, we’ve featured a few can’t-miss culinary ventures, including tasty fried flowers prepared by a foraging chef, and an idyllic restaurant famed for its onsite laboratory and farm. Here’s a quick look back at the edible innovations we’ve been exploring, … Read More...
Category: Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Travel
Tags: Catalan, Catalonia, cooking, dining, farm-to-table, farms, food, foraging. edible gardens, gastronomy, Hudson Valley, Spain, sustainable agriculture, tourism, travel, urban gardens, vegetable gardens
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August 4, 2013
Like the nearby open fields where La Calendula’s owner-chef Iolanda Bustos forages for flowers and herbs, her restaurant’s exposed kitchen resembles a verdant theater in the round, a center stage surrounded by the colorful bounty she gathers every day between … Read More...
Category: Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens
Tags: botanical art, botanical cuisine, botanical gastronomy, calendula, catalan cuisine, edible flowers, foraged flowers, foraged food, foraged herbs, Girona, marigold, Spain
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July 14, 2013
These days, we find gardens in unconventional places, from highway median dividers to old parking lots. The City of Barcelona has elevated growing plants to an art form in unlikely places, transforming newly exposed party walls into lush vertical gardens. … Read More...
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Greening, Irrigation, Permaculture, Vertical Gardens
Tags: "vegitecture", Barcelona, bidiversity, City of Barcelona, Costa Brava, drip irrigation, green architecture, green facades, living walls, party walls, Spain, Spain tourism, Urban wildlife
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Gustav Eiffel’s Pont de le Peixateries Velles over Onyar river. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton.
