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Garden sheds look ugly : garden accessories need a funky home
Image source: IKea JOESF Cabinet £40 My Shed 2012-1954 Am looking for an off the shelf shed solution to store my increasing collection of garden accessories. Directly above is an image of my former ugly shed – it was in my rear yard since 1954 and was pulled down towards the end of [...]
Plants & containers as one gesture. Living wall ideas at Grand Designs Melbourne
Grand Designs in Melbourne Australia is featuring some pretty fabulous plant inspired products this year. Many of them related to the living wall trend. The sculptural ‘Barrel of Monkey’ planters shown above is beautiful. The designer (Adam Cornish) has integrated the structure of the plant with the form of its container. Rather than trying [...]
Unusual planters: hip window dressing for your shop
Here are photos of rather fun planters in a shop window in the ever so groovy strip of High Street Shops in Northcote, Melbourne Australia. Don’t know how long the dinosaur can remain a home for the plants but its certainly a novel idea. The shop next door to the dinosaur display had an [...]
Screaming rigid plastic – a living wall planter by Woolly Pocket
Photo: inhabitat The new living wall planter from Woolly Pocket has been unveiled in the USA. I keep thinking ‘Do I really want an object in my living room that screams ‘plastic container’ on my wall?’ I suppose minigarden is glaringly plastic – and that is a favourite amongst Garden Beet customers – [...]
Olympic flower torch for your cauldron: create an opening ceremony in your garden
Well done Thomas Heatherwick (designer of the Olympic flame turn cauldron). Spectacular!! Garden Beet has already had requests for a fire-pits-cum-culdron for british private garden ceremonies. Garden Beet does not stock fire pits – plenty of others do - but if you want a tiny flame we recommend our Pebblecube Tea LIght Holders We [...]
Green garden netting used to create an interior light
This weekend Garden Beet weeded its grantic sand, prunned its banksia hedge and then went inside with some garden centre finds. Garden Centres can be viewed as a haberdashery store. Stop and look around – they can be a fabulous resource. Taking items designed for the outdoors and bringing them inside can create some [...]
Topiary is trending. Is it time to Topirate?
Bejesus – ABC Garden Show just announced hedging and topiary is back. Burgon and Ball in the UK announced it 2 months ago. I thought it may have been happening when I saw these creatures in Melbourne’s Botanical Gardens a good 12 months ago. So yep its happening. Gardening is a [...]
Woolly Pockets. Plants thrive at BBC Gardeners’ World living walls.
The Only Way Is Up! Visitors to this year’s BBC Gardeners World at the NEC cannot fail to be impressed by the wall of wonder that is on display outside the floral marquee. By using Woolly Pockets, supplied by Garden Beet, the Gardeners World Living Wall demonstrates just how fun and versatile vertical gardening [...]
How to get a ‘flat’ wall appearance with a Woolly Pocket
Photo: John Connel This is the neatest installation of Woolly Pockets I have seen. Built for the Oceans Stand at this years Chelsea Flower Show (2012). The wall recess is going to allow the plants to be flush with surrounding surfaces. Perfect. Occasionally I hear Woolly Pockets getting a bad wrap (not from people who have [...]
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