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Creative Vertical Garden Built With Dozens Of Hanging Flowerpots In Brazil

9:22 am in brazil, decorating, Design & Architecture, gardening by TreeHugger

Green Wall With Hanging Pots In Brazil Photo Photos: Rosenbaum. Building on the great response their awesome vertical garden with recycled plastic bottles received, Brazilian design studio Rosenbaum has come up with another vertical garden for their latest Lar doce lar project (a segment at a popular TV show where they remodel houses of low-income families). This time they used hanging flowerpots attached to the wall, giving an interesting illusion...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pocket Gardens Sprout on Paris’s Anti-Parking Posts

8:00 am in Design & Architecture, france, gardening, paris, urban life by TreeHugger

potogreen paris france pocket planters photo A 'Potogreen' in Paris. Photo: Anne Mazauric via Paule Kingleur. Necessary as they are to keep cars from blocking the sidewalk, anti-parking posts, or bollards, can be an ugly sight in a city. Parisian artist Paule Kingleur has commandeered some of the 335,000 posts in the French capital as sites for hanging micro-gardens -- what she calls a neighborhood "vegetable insurrection."...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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8 Acres of New York City Community Gardens Deeded to Local Land Trusts

11:20 am in Food & Health, gardening, new york city by TreeHugger

carver community garden photo Carver Community Garden, Harlem, New York. Photo: Mat McDermott Last summer the battle in the New York City community gardens scene was to ensure that the 600-odd community-run green spaces across the City's five boroughs got a fair deal as the regulations governing them got renegotiated. Permanency was the watchword, ensuring that the battles over them that occurred in th...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Edible Landscaping in Downtown Detroit

1:45 pm in botanical, food, Food & Health, gardening, urban farms by TreeHugger

lgreens.jpgPhoto Credit: Mark the Kid, Office workers in downtown Detroit have something new to look at on their lunch hours. Where the Lafayette Building once stood, vacant and slowly crumbling, a large garden now grows. And this isn't just your typical urban landscaping job. You won't find any carpet roses or 'Stella d'Oro' daylilies here. This is an edible landscape, planted by master gardeners and other volunteers. Greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, and other veggies, along with a few apple trees, grace the lot where the old building once stood. The garden provides not only all-imp...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Awesome Vertical Garden With Recycled PET Bottles At Poor Family Home In Sao Paulo

8:30 am in brazil, Design & Architecture, gardening, recycled consumer goods, small spaces by TreeHugger

Vertical Garden With Recycled PET Bottles In Sao Paulo Photo Photos: Rosenbaum. Brazilian design studio Rosenbaum collaborates with TV show Caldeirao do Huck in a segment called Lar doce lar (Home Sweet Home), which helps families in need re-designing their homes to improve their lives and self-esteem. In its latest work for a family living in the outskirts of Sao Paulo...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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City of Austin Chops Down Shrubs, Sprays Herbicides…After Praising Resident’s Garden

10:50 am in botanical, Food & Health, gardening by TreeHugger

wildlifehabitat.jpgPhoto Credit: Dan O'Connor, Flickr Creative Commons Attribution License. The garden police idiocy doesn't end with front yard vegetable gardens. Picture this: You live in hot, dry Austin, Texas. You spend thousands of dollars over many years to turn your front yard into an organic, water-saving, wildlife-friendly oasis. You have it certified as an official Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Toronto Changing Ordinance; Will Allow Front Yard Vegetable Gardens

11:54 am in Food & Health, gardening by TreeHugger

tomatoesvine.jpgPhoto Credit: Ajith_chatie, Flickr Creative Commons Attribution License. With all of the bad news we're hearing about overzealous local governments infringing on people's right to garden (from Michigan to British Columbia, and, undoubtedly, several places in between), a bit of good news is wel...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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9 Plant-Preserving Self-Watering Container Gardens You Can DIY or Buy (Slideshow)

10:04 am in agriculture, Food & Health, gardening, local food, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

self watering gardens intro photo Photo: Joe Marinaro/Creative Commons Most plants don't need much to survive: Just dirt, sunlight, and water -- although that last one can really trip you up if you're a novice gardener, out of town, or just plain forgetful. That's where self-watering container gardens come in: You place your plants in an insert, place the insert in a reservoir of water, and let the plant soak up water as required. Self-watering gardens are a cinch to DIY with almost any kind of container, from an empty soda bottle to an 18-gallon storage bin, but there ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Build Your Own Automated Greenhouse for Effortless Gardening (Video)

10:00 am in concepts & prototypes, do it yourself, electronics, gadgets, gardening, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

plantduino photo Photo via Clover This might be one of the coolest Arduino projects I've seen for gardening to date. Clover, aka Clovercreature on Instructables, and Revoltlab.com combined efforts to build a greenhouse that has automated water and temperature controls, called "Plantduino." The greenhouse knows when it needs more water and can turn its own watering system on and off. Cool? You bet. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Front Yard Vegetable Gardens: Different is Good

10:54 am in Food & Health, gardening by TreeHugger

with-mulch-4.jpgPhoto Credit: Julie Bass Since I wrote about the Michigan woman who is facing 93 days in jail for planting a vegetable garden last Friday, the story has just exploded. TIME, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Geek Mom, CRAFT, Grist, and Daily Kos -- along with plenty of other blogs -- have covered the story. It never fails that someone in the comment section defends the city of Oak Park's actions by saying "why should ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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