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Twitter DIY. Venice architecture biennale 08: japanese pavilion. The exterior garden and greenhouses at the japanese pavilion image © designboom wooden furniture adorns the garden creating the feeling of an interior space outdoors image © designboom one of the greenhouses at the japanese pavilion image © designboom cushions were provided for visitors to sit and enjoy the garden and the greenhouses image © designboom plant vines are carefully hung on a chain creating living curtain-like barriers image © designboom detail of hanging vines image © designboom the japanese pavilion’s minimalist interior image © designboom details of botanical pencil drawings which decorate the interior walls of the pavilion image © designboom image © designboom detail drawings of domestic spaces decorate the interior walls of the pavilion image © designboom visitors gathering inside the japanese pavilion image © designboom.

venice architecture biennale 08: japanese pavilion

Junya Ishigami: Architecture of Air; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 – review. This must be a first: an architectural installation which, at a total of 300g, weighs the same as its accompanying press pack.

Junya Ishigami: Architecture of Air; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 – review

Also, an exhibition of architecture which is almost invisible, and beyond the power of photography to capture. Such is Junya Ishigami's Architecture as Air, just opened in the Curve at the Barbican. Once you have taken your shoes off, and listened to the instructions to take extreme care, you see nothing except the curving gallery itself, its ventilation grilles, lights and electrical conduits. National Gardening Association. For the most part, the areas where home gardeners plant the citrus trees are the same areas where citrus is grown commercially.

National Gardening Association

But if space is limited or climate isn't suitable, it's still possible to enjoy these trees and their bounty year-round. How? By growing citrus trees in containers. A citrus tree of your choice, grafted onto Flying Dragon (Hiryu) rootstock A container such as a half-whiskey barrel Enough soil mix to fill the container, about 2 cubic feet Fertilizer: controlled-release or soluble liquid To grow indoors, a pebble tray for extra humidity and perhaps a grow lamp for extra light If you live in the mild-winter West, Southwest, or Southeast, you can grow most kinds of citrus in container outdoors year-round. Which Types to Grow?. DIY Small Space Pallet Garden Life On The Bacony. Planter et cultiver ses plantes aromatiques. Reconnues pour leurs qualités aromatiques et médicinales, ces herbes ont été adoptées par l’Homme depuis des millénaires.

Planter et cultiver ses plantes aromatiques

Chaque plante a son histoire, allant du basilic, plante Royale, à la lavande, qui parfume l'haleine pour recouvrir l’odeur de l’alcool, en passant par le safran, utilisé par Cléopâtre pour ses vertus cosmétiques et colorantes. The Lazy Lady’s Guide to DIY: Hanging Herb Garden. Graines à faire germer chez soi et à consommer. Jardinage enfant - des graines à germer – Momes.net. 21 Simple Ideas For Adorable DIY Terrariums. World’s Largest Maze.

Franco Maria Ricci, the publisher behind Luigi Serafini’s Codex Seraphinianus, just completed a 17.5 acre maze at Fontanellato, Italy.

World’s Largest Maze

His labyrinth of bamboo hedges near Parma reportedly comes in at five times the size of the Pineapple Garden Maze on Hawaii, the largest permanent hedge maze in the Guinness Book of Records. The maze will open to the public in 2012 once a visitors’ center is built. [image & story via the guardian] Le bloc-note du desordre : 2013-12-01 - 2013-12-08. Mercredi Le dernier Lanzmann Claude Lanzmann est un homme énervant, la lecture de son hagiographique autobiographie, le Lièvre de Patagonie, a sans doute eu raison de tous ceux qui restaient parmi ses admirateurs (s’il en demeurait encore quelques-uns après son épouvantable film Tsahal, à la gloire unanime de l’armée israélienne).

Le bloc-note du desordre : 2013-12-01 - 2013-12-08

Et il faut une sacrée dose d’honnêteté intellectuelle pour pardonner à Claude Lanzmann tout cela et bien d’autres choses encore, notamment sa propension depuis Shoah à phagocyter toute discussion et débat à propos de la destruction des Juifs d’Europe — et il fut exécrable dans la polémique qui l’a opposé à Georges Didi-Huberman à propos d’Images malgré tout —, et lui pardonner parce que justement il est le réalisateur de Shoah, dont j’ai toujours pensé que le cinéma parlant avait été inventé pour pouvoir faire ce seul film, cette révélation.

D’où la longue explication du contexte. La très longue explication du contexte. Diy wednesdays: terrarium party favors. We came across a bunch of these globe vases at our local thrift store the other day and thought they would make great little terrariums to hand out to guests at our next shindig, the personalized labels were a cinch to make using colorful popsicle sticks and a set of alphabet stamps. click here for the full project and instructions or just click “read more” below. How To: Make a One-Pot Indoor Herb Garden Most Popular Posts. Basil, thyme, sage.

How To: Make a One-Pot Indoor Herb Garden Most Popular Posts

These are indispensable herbs, and they grew in abundance on our front stoop all summer. We don't like paying $2.50 per packet for herbs at the supermarket, so when it gets cold, we have another plan. Fortunately it's not difficult to grow these herbs indoors — even in a tiny kitchen. One big pot, some potting soil, and a few herb plants are all you need. You should also have a sunny spot; the herbs will need plenty of direct sunshine...Some of you already have your container garden moved inside, and new plant projects going for the winter.

Tierspaysage_plantes. Groundbreaker: Gilles Clément – Garden Design. Gilles Clément is a hard man to pin down.

Groundbreaker: Gilles Clément – Garden Design

Officialhow-tos. We are pleased to announce the V3.0 release of the windowfarms community’s latest windowfarm design, the V3.0, the Modular Airlift Multicolumn Array, or MAMA!

officialhow-tos

Quietereasier to set upmore elegant, but still do-able with all recycled water bottlesmore plants for less electrical input (up to 32 plants on one air pump if you do Rama’s double plant mod)modular, meaning you can supply proper nutrients to vegetative, fruiting, and flowering plants all in one system. No more airlift issues with the new tubes. And we have finally achieved some serious height!! Achieving height means you can grow more plants with the same pump so it is way more efficient in terms of the amount of nutritional calories per fossil fuel calorie used in powering the pump.

Officialhow-tos. Indoor Herb Garden Kits - Windowfarms. A Windowfarm is a vertical, indoor garden kit that allows for year-round growing in almost any window.

Indoor Herb Garden Kits - Windowfarms

It lets plants use natural window light, the climate control of your living space, and organic “liquid soil.” In the hydroponic system, nutrient-spiked water is pumped up from a reservoir at the base of the system and trickles down from bottle to bottle, bathing the roots along the way. Hydroponics. NASA researcher checking hydroponic onions with Bibb lettuce to his left and radishes to the right Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture, the method of growing plants without soil, using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent.[1] Terrestrial plants may be grown with only their roots exposed to the mineral solution, or the roots may be supported by an inert medium, such as perlite or gravel.

The nutrients in hydroponics can be from fish waste, duck manure, or normal nutrients. History[edit] In 1929, William Frederick Gericke of the University of California at Berkeley began publicly promoting that solution culture be used for agricultural crop production.[3][4] He first termed it aquaculture but later found that aquaculture was already applied to culture of aquatic organisms. Reports of Gericke's work and his claims that hydroponics would revolutionize plant agriculture prompted a huge number of requests for further information. Techniques[edit] Static solution culture[edit] Kokedama. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. String Garden Tutorial - also known as Kokedama or Moss Balls. “kokedama” string garden. The days are getting longer, and the sun is shining more; I can’t think of a better time to get my hands into soil and play around with some fun plant experiments for spring!

Build Your Own String Garden in 7 Steps. Kokedama, which means moss ball, is a style of Japanese bonsai that takes presentational aesthetics outside the box—literally. Kokedama are made by transferring your plant out of its pot and into a ball of soil held together with moss and string.