The scope for plant based wearing may have changed. Andrea Hatfield demonstrates the possibilities of chlorophyll couture. Wearing a Mini Wally and living plants Andrea jogged (walked?) 26.2 miles around London. A challenging task. Busy raising money for cancer she also managed to test the boundaries of plant based fashion accessories. Mini Wally by Woolly Pockets [...]
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Woolly Pockets at the Garden of Disorientation, Chelsea Fringe
London is entering its ‘plant based’ excitement season. This year London is doubly more exciting than in the past as it now has a CHELSEA FRINGE . If in London’s east end during May and June take a look at the Woolly Pockets in the Mojito bar. The bar is part of the [...]
Mister Moss New Australian Hanging Gifts
A great neat gift item is now available in Australia. Mister Moss is a hanging moss plant ball. Available in a unique variety of plants, and each one is made by hand. Moss plants are designed for indoors and out. For further details on these fun plants check out http://www.mister-moss.com/
Indoor lights for gardens underwater. Jellyfish art aquascapes.
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 [...]
Not a New Idea. Check out faux Vertical Gardens
Vertical gardens are claimed by some to be a new planting trend. I suppose it all depends on your exposure to garden design. But Garden Beet is beginning to think that… maybe ….the vertical garden genre is a fairly well understood design concept. Today I saw faux living walls in a discount supermarket. Yes the plants above are [...]
Cheap fabric living wall planters – forget it – go to Ikea
If you want plants growing on a wall and you want them to grow well Garden Beet still gives a number one vote to the Wally Pocket. Unfortunately the Wally Pocket is expensive – and that is a problem for some. I have seen approximately 10 copies of the Wally Pockets and really I would [...]
Plant some bluddy street trees City of Darebin. Melbourne is a heat sink
All engineers and urban designers should be made to walk on 35-40 degree days from my house to the local primary school with my children aged 5 and 6 and tell me what they think about streets without trees. This little graphic was given to Garden Beet from http://www.cobaeurope.com/ . The graphic is all [...]
Timber window boxes – vibrate good times amongst concrete.
Raw timber amongst asphalt and concrete is a soothing image. Couple hard concrete and the black bitumen with fresh green herbs and a layer of pea straw we have an urban greenery that vibrates good times. Nothing is more uplifting (for me) than watching shop owners vegetating their shop windows. Here is a [...]
Macrame hanging planters – retro indoor plants do purple and green
Retro hipsters have embraced the macrame tradition that I was brought up on during the 70s. Travelling along Melbourne’s - too cool for school – Brunswick Street in Fitzroy one will find a giant overscaled hanging planter x 2 in the front of hairdresser’s salon. I love the idea….its always fun to experiment with [...]
Post Christmas: trees and decorations in the new year
I love this. I have waited 10 months to show this image and finally its the right month! If you are living in the northern hemisphere and you have not ventured to Australia during Christmas you may have little idea how disconnected our European influenced Christmas decorations and traditions are from the hot Australian [...]
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