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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21 Mar
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 [...]
20 Mar
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.
26 Jul
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 [...]
14 Jul
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 [...]
12 Jul
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 [...]
9 Jun
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 [...]
8 Jun
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
