Garden Unique, a new premium outdoor section of spoga+gafa opening in September in Cologne, Germany, is sponsoring Garden Goes Balcony, a design contest inviting new or established designers to submit fresh ideas for creative balcony spaces. … Read More...
Design Challenge: Ten Urban Balcony Garden Ideas
H2O My Goodness! Beautiful Designs for Outdoor Spaces
Oh how I love the work of H2O Designs–a Melbourne company that specializes in the custom design and production of dynamically designed water features, planter boxes, and outdoor seating for rooftop gardens, balconies, and courtyards.
Planted tables and … Read More...
Colorful Self-Watering Vertical Garden Walls
When I spotted these colorful modular vertical planter systems at the Independent Garden Centers show, they reminded me of Uten.Silo, the classic 1969 wall storage containers designed for Vitra by Dorothee Becker. Their design cousin, Bellavaz, are modular self-watering … Read More...
Divide and Cultivate With This Indoor Vertical Garden
Herb², an indoor vertical garden that doubles as a terrarium room divider and flexible partition, made its debut at Fabrikaat, an exhibition at this year’s Milan Design Week.
As part of the Master of Interior Architecture and Retail … Read More...
Outdoor-Indoor Designs for Birds, Plants, and People
Funny how some people find their passions. After tripping over an overgrown creeper’s tendril in 2008 and fracturing his hip, Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer, Joe Paine, was inspired to design products for plants.
Kreep Planter System by Joe Paine.… Read More...
Cool Indoor-Outdoor Modular Cylinder Planters
As soon as I saw the Décor Fiori Cylinders, it was instant love. What do I love? These lightweight cylinders are fabulous for small spaces and are really versatile: you can use them indoors or outdoors, individually or in multiples … Read More...
Grow a Fence
Piantalà is a grow-your-own fence, a plant trellis, a partition, a privacy screen, a place to hang stuff and a super versatile concept for growing both vertically and horizontally.
Created from a metal rod that graphically mimics the … Read More...
Vertical Gardens With Supernatural Healing Powers
We’ve discussed before the benefits of plants and vertical gardens–how they can not only beautify indoor and outdoor spaces, but can help decrease energy usage by providing insulation, improve indoor air quality, even provide a place to grow … Read More...
The Year’s 20 Best: Urban Gardens 2012 Roundup!
As we round the corner from 2012 to 2013, I want to stop and thank all my readers, subscribers, and social media followers for visiting Urban Gardens since it’s launch in 2009, and for supporting my vision for blending together … Read More...
Organic Concrete For Living Green Facades
Spanish researchers have developed a living concrete that may define a new method for creating vertical gardens and living walls on building facades. Capturing rainwater, the multilayered cement encourages and sustains the growth and viability of specific mosses and lichens … Read More...
Modular Vertical Garden System For Balconies Leans, Stands, and Hangs
Pflix is like a vertical garden doing yoga. Designer Christian Heufelder’s modular planting system has the kind of flexibility that I want after an hour of stretching.
Adaptive to even the most space deprived conditions, the system strikes a number … Read More...
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Best of 2013: Urban Gardens Top 10 Favorite Posts
Urban Gardens readers and followers have spoken. In 2013, vertical gardens continued to reign in popularity, as did outdoor and indoor edible gardens, some of which were climbing the walls.
You loved concrete as much as I did, and the … Read More...
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New Opus Garten Hängen Self-Irrigating Wall Planter
When San Francisco designer/entrepreneur Michael Good’s house plants began taking over most of his apartment’s available counter space, he realized that necessity (and Good design) would be the mother of his invention.
During an unsuccessful search for a hanging planter … Read More...
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Climbing Up: 10 Innovative Vertical Garden Ideas
I often think of vertical gardens as the utilitarian cousin of the decorative container garden. You’d love a vegetable garden, but your studio apartment in the city didn’t come with an acre of land. Enter the vertical garden. Focusing only … Read More...
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Urban Gardens 2014 Holiday Gift Guide
Drumroll! It’s that time of year and we’re excited to present our 2014 holiday gift guide, a curated list of 12 fun, functional, and fashionable items for home and garden. Have you been naughty or nice? No matter, we’re not judging. Go ahead, treat yourself … Read More...
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Best of 2014: Urban Gardens Top 10 Favorite Posts
With the snap of the finger and the blink of an eye, another year comes to an end. What were a few of your favorite things? These ten blog posts apparently.
Here’s a glimpse of what your Urban Gardens community loved … Read More...
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Frédéric Malphettes Trellis Vertical Garden
One of my favorite French designers, Frédéric Malphettes, reaches new heights with Anno, his latest vertical garden trellis structure, a welcome addition to his family of modular vertical garden designs.
Anno is playful from the start: the name is a … Read More...
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Reap What You Sow With AKER Urban Farming Kits
You can picture it right? Starting your day by collecting a bounty of fresh eggs, herbs and other edibles, popping over to check on your buzzing bee hive, and then heading out to enjoy your day in the city with … Read More...
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Living in a Vertical World
While vertical gardening may be a more recent obsession, vertical living has been going on for a long time. Both are innovative responses to maximizing the space needed to nurture living things in crowded urban areas.
Growing six tiers of … Read More...
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Rooftop Airplant Vertical Garden Hides Solar Panels
When the homeowners added solar panels to the roof of their spectacular Ray Kappe designed house in Los Angeles’s Rustic Canyon, they wanted to screen the panels with a design that celebrated their passion for airplants without sacrificing their view … Read More...
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