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DIY: Make Your Own Wildflower Seed Bombs
Guerrilla gardening may use the language of civilian warfare, but floral beauty is the uniting cause. Gardening without permission is another way of describing these activities: not strictly legal but...
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Windowsill Garden: Seed Sprouting Kit
It turns out to be possible to grow an entire farm on a 3-inch deep window sill. Spotted at Uncommon Goods: Above: The Micro Greens Kit comes with seeds to grow organic red cabbage, mini carrots, and...
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DIY: Instant Hanging Shelves for Houseplants
Recently spotted from Byggstudio, a creative consultancy in Sweden: standard wooden trellises and DIY sawhorse tables display plants in a pop-up vintage plant shop. Founded in 2006 by Hanna Nilsson...
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Pacific Heights Mystery: A Hidden City Garden Reveals Its Secrets
In San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood, Lutsko Associates designed a small, lush garden to be lived in at ground level—and to be viewed from above. The result? From the vantage of the house's...
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Colorful Birdhouses from Loll Designs
Noticed recently: another birdhouse to add to the list of greats—this time from Minnesota-based recycled furniture designers Loll Designs. Made from 100-percent recycled HDPE plastic, each birdhouse is...
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Oven Canning 101: Easy Cardamom Flavored Pears
I was one of those Laura Ingalls Wilder girls who grew up trying to churn butter while costumed in my mother's gingham apron. (Perhaps you were a Little House on the Prairie addict, too. Remember tying...
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65 Backyard Plants You Didn't Know You Could Eat
For me, foraging for edible plants has always been limited to the few I know best. Wild blackberries until my stomach hurts? Check. Linden in the springtime? Always. Stolen juneberries? Guilty. But...
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5 Favorites: Summery Green Roofs in the City
The day is coming when gardens will be a more common sight than black tar on a roof. Here are a few green roofs we've been admiring: Above: Just planted. In a year, the grasses and sedums will grow...
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10 Secrets for Growing an Urban Balcony Garden
Raised in South Africa by a mother who is a ferociously good gardener, Marie Viljoen had one non-negotiable requirement when she went apartment hunting in Brooklyn. "I took this tiny, tiny apartment...
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A Stylish Way to Water Plants While You're Away
Spotted on Anthropologie, a clear glass ball to fill with water to keep house plants happy when you go out of town for the weekend: Above: A mouth-blown glass Garden Water Ball will keep house plants...
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Must-Have Flower: All About Veronicastrum
Some plants look good at every stage: hydrangea comes to mind, and veronicastrum. Tall airy plants like the calamagostris grass and veronicastrum can work well in small gardens. Nectar-rich flowers...
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Urban Garden Hangers
Not your mother's macrame plant hangers: Authentic's Urban Garden Plant Bags offer a decidedly modern means to create an indoor garden when space is tight. Above: Made of black coated polyester fabric,...
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A City Garden With a Spectacular View
When Kim Potter and Bob Miller gaze out the windows of their San Francisco home, they see a spectacular cityscape—and when they peer down into their own backyard, they're treated to an equally...
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Cocktail Hour: A Sour Cherry Rickey
After I bought my first pint of sour cherries at the market this summer, I took them home, pitted them in the afternoon sunlight, and mashed them into one of the more delicious cocktails I've enjoyed...
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From Italy With Love: The World's Best View From a Terrace
In the northern Italian city of Mantova, Diego Cisi and Stefano Gorni Silvestri of Archiplan Studio designed a streamlined terrace on the top floor of a family home originally built in the 1600s. The...
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Industrial Chic: Instant Trellis
Here's a clever idea: Metal grid panels used as a trellis. Portland, OR-based Craig Olson and Sean Igo (their shop Canoe is one of our favorites anywhere) recently renovated a townhouse in Scottsdale,...
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And in the Winners' Circle... Brooklyn's Greenest Block
In the strange way that past events can suddenly become relevant and influential in the present, a filmmaker's groundbreaking achievement 44 years ago helped to propel a Brooklyn block to the winning...
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Must-Have: Shiny Portable Planting Boxes
Think of them like miniature raised beds. You can fold up Shift_Design's new lightweight aluminum tiles as if they were cardboard boxes to create a portable garden on a balcony, deck, or rooftop....
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In the News: The Week's 5 Top Posts
What does summer in the city look like? We can report that the fire escape tomatoes are thriving. This week we visited gardens in downtown Antwerp, in hilly San Francisco, on a tiny fourth-floor...
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Hike of the Week: Brooklyn Bridge Park
When New York City temperatures got stuck in the high 90's for a long week in July, sweat and misery seemed to be everywhere. But some people were brave enough to unglue themselves from their air...
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