Posts Tagged ‘containers’

The Vertical Garden

The Vertical Garden ($30 + shipping) creates nine planting areas, stacked on three levels. We found it at the Philadelphia Flower Show and liked how the triple stack of pots is water and space efficient. R* and I are interested in hearing what you think about the “taste level” of this Vertical Garden. The Vertical [...]

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Small Space Garden Inspiration from the Philadelphia Flower Show

A few weeks ago, we snuck away to Philadelphia for the day to visit the Philadelphia Flower Show. The show was stunning, but honestly we were hoping for more inspiration and ideas for urban small space gardeners. This stand from the Mid Atlantic Horticultural Therapy Network stood out to us. They suggested looking for discarded [...]

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Stoop Sighting: First Flowers on Park Place

Today is the first day of spring! We don’t know the name of this plant (do you?), but we love how this bush brightens this Brooklyn brownstone stoop.

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Our Favorite Brownstone Stoop Container Garden

We finally snapped a picture of my favorite Brooklyn brownstone stoop gardens this afternoon. This brownstone planter is simple — just two plants — and elegant. The plants take advantage of their location; passers buy look up into the grass and little blue flowers. If this planting was viewed at ground level, the little flowers [...]

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A London Rooftop Vegetable Garden

Check out Dom’s rooftop garden in Hackney, London. This is his first year in this building, so he call this vegetable garden “a big experiment.” Dom’s tomatoes are growing in grow bags — “really just bags full of peat/compost/growing soil that are specially designed for vegetables and fruit,” he explained. “They’re great for vegetables in [...]

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Use Shoe Organizers to Create a Wall Garden

Could a shoe organizer make a comfortable home for a bunch of plants? We found this whimsical planter on Apartment Therapy. Then we found step-by-step instructions on how to make a shoe organizer garden on Time Out NY and Instructables. We’re wondering how these look after a full growing season, so we’re going toscour the [...]

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Help Us Pick Plants: One More Rooftop Perennial Container

Hey, so we’re adding one more container to our roof garden … and we really need your help.  We’re hoping to put bold flowers and lush-looking plants that will be able to handle  rooftop conditions . I’m just about ready to push the buy button on this cart from White Flower Farm, but I’d like [...]

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Wall Gardening: A Small Space Solution

We’ve got just enough room for people, plants, and patio table in our Brooklyn roof garden, but I’m wondering if we could squeeze in a wall garden? If we could push everything out 10 inches, we could turn the stairwell shed into a wall garden using this stackable wall garden from Lee Valley. Too bad [...]

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Woolly Pocket: A mini-meadow for your roof garden

This San Francisco roof garden was built with the Woolly Meadow. We haven’t tested Woolly Pockets (or even seen one of these in person yet), but they seem to fill a great roof gardening niche: they’re pretty affordable ($247, hey… one plastic pot at Home Depot is twenty bucks!), lined to protect the roof, and [...]

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Early Summer Roof Garden Inspiration from Bearsky

Brooklyn terrace and roof gardener Bearsky has more photos to share. (Thanks, Bearsky!) Spring green sprouts look amazing in concrete troughs, though concrete would be booted off my roof — too heavy! The lion garden sculpture is amazing. Where’d you get it, Bearsky? I blogged Bearsky’s rooftop vines too. Images: Bearsky, via Flickr

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