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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Garden Beet loves where Jellyfish Art are going – if you have ever gone diving you will know the bazaar gardens that exist under the sea. Two guys in the States have started making these landscapes in portable form and are selling them - Jellyfish Aquariums ! Garden Beet has been doing some investigation into [...]
Today’s guest post is from Susi, a writer for Arcadian Lighting, a must-shop resource for beautiful lighting fixtures. ‘Tis the season for living outdoors and Susi is going to share with us some of her finds for innovative outdoor lighting that have a contemporary style to it. Contemporary outdoor lighting focuses on innovative materials, interesting [...]
Images: David Hobson http://mistlefield.blogspot.com/ Here are another crop of images that show things are happening on fences, walls and anywhere else that goes up and down. Vertical gardens can create extreme beauty. Am loving the pinks and greens of the first image. Thanks for letting us have a peek at your fab [...]
Images supplied by Templeman Harrison London Garden Design Garden Beet adores decking. When designed and constructed well it can bring everyday joy and can become a piece of art for the garden . If you are undergoing a garden redesign and would like a deck we recommend allocating a decent [...]
A quirky garden art moment found in the car park of a bean bag shop in Ascot Vale Melbourne (King Kahuna) . Nothing more suburban than a timber pailing fence. How fantastic to treat the pailing fence with the 1950s suburban icon ‘flying ducks on a wall’. Garden Beet love’s the context change of [...]
This is a great picture of Chris. I forced her to change into my black dress and pose whilst I played with an air plant around her neck. We made them on Saturday for the Sunday Brick Lane Market in London. A bit of fun. Nothing serious. I dont even charge for the attachment (of the [...]
Did you know the musty stag head hanging on your family’s drawing room wall has become an icon of super chic? The strong shape creates a great graphic. Garden Beet stocks this item in the garden wall art department. Ours are made of cast iron. The outdoor british brand Anorak use the icon on many [...]
