My lawn mower man – the lovely Mark Galligan – has a socialogical impact on every street he visits. Not only does he make the garden a nice place to hang out but he also injects a community reminder to the surrounding home owners to mow their lawn. According to Mark he will frequently [...]
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Is Garden Beet a fraud? Article writing, gardens, media and academia
For some reason I ended up in a garden forum ‘punch-up’. And it was in linked-in! I am sure I did not start the argument but somehow I managed to be called a fraud and I got into trouble for being rude about an imaginary group of people which I referred to as the blah [...]
Crowd source design: can a crowd design a garden or landscape
What is crowd source design on the web? A brief summary of a website that offers crowd source design is detailed below (99Designs ) where individuals and small businesses can post graphic work that they need done. ….within hours of a project being posted, designers from all around the world compete by uploading fully [...]
Recycled Wooden Planters: Walls at Muscrats Vintage
These planters caught my eye whilst waiting for fish and chips on St Georges Road in [...]
Hanging planters: retro prints and botanical illustration – gardening is hip
Now check this out: the guys at Boskke have teamed up with Jaguarshoes Collective in London’s East end to make indoor gardening rather hip indeed. Upside down ceramic planters are being wallpapered with bright bold retro prints. Products to be released onto the market in October. Just in time for Christmas. Are you wondering [...]
London Garden Design and Build: Earth Designs
The Drawing Room Garden This small walled garden has sound, attractive sandstone paving throughout. However, due to lack of planting the space has a school yard/car park feel to it and is walled on three sides. Although the garden is east facing it does get quite a lot of sun and is generally [...]
A super plant for a vertical garden. Trailing lotus – great wall of living silver
Its a rare day when I buy plants at the supermarket but I made an allowance as these plants were in perfect condition for an instant vertical garden . The trails were well over 2 metres and in full red-pea flower. For $60 aus I picked up three Trailing Lotus’ Lotus berthelotii at Woolworths [...]
Innovative Outdoor Lighting. Contemporary ideas from Arcadian Lighting
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 [...]
The green stuff is creating wall art for the garden.
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 [...]
Garden stools hand-made from porcelain. Samantha Robinson
Images taken from Samantha Robinson website Can you believe that the barrel shapes above are garden stools made from porcelain? I have never seen any garden furniture quite like it. And the stools are robust – according to designer Samanatha Robinson. Its a relief to finally see such rich patterns and fabulous colours being [...]
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