NASA // PLANT // 2011 : PIOTR SZPRYNGWALD. Container Gardening Brainstorming. *notcot in home+decor , 02:28 Perhaps one of the fun parts about plants is you can grow them just about anywhere (given a reasonable amount of space/etc) ~ whether you toss seeds into the ground (or seed bomb!)
Or your growing things on your balcony, in your apartment, or landscaping your estate… just about anything is possible if you get creative! Lately i’ve been debating doing a larger container garden, perhaps a raised bed even… thinking vegetables and berries might be fun. There are tons of options, and i just got lost wandering the images Bing found me - how awesome are these strawberries in the half wine barrel?!?! Well from various raised beds, wooden structures, huge sacks and felt bags, wooden wine boxes, balcony options, upside down planters and more… see some of our favorites on the next page! Here’s a Pyramid Planter that is ideal for flowers, herbs, greens, strawberries and more! The BACSAC! The Woolly Pocket Meadow is another option like the BacSac ~ only felty! Flowers under $50: mosquito-free garden party.
Summer is here, and in Texas, the heat and bugs are on the rise.
But instead of hiding indoors, counting down the days until the mercury drops, you can entertain in a lovely way outdoors on the cheap while keeping the mosquito bites at bay — no harsh chemicals necessary! Today, we’re really getting our hands dirty and making lovely kokedama arrangements of rosemary, copper canyon daisy and lavender that you can hang over any outdoor dinner party and keep on the porch to stave off those skeeters!
— Mary Kathryn Paynter All photos by Mary Kathryn Paynter Read the full post after the jump . . . Images by Mary Kathryn Paynter There are many plants said to repel mosquitoes, the most famous being citronella and catnip. Kokedama is a style of gardening that originates from Japanese bonsai and involves blanketing the roots of a plant in moss, tying it with string and creating a hanging garden with the plants. Image by Mary Kathryn Paynter. PLANT IN CITY. Collaboration with Med44.
Q&A: HB Collaborative, Makers of ‘Plant-In City’ With armory-sized ambitions, riffs of Archigram and Peter Cook, and a penchant for Japanese joinery, Huy Bui and Jon Schamm of HB Collaborative, together with Carlos J.
Gómez de Llarena of med44, explore smart infrastructure for a city’s silent sentient beings. 'Plant-In City' is an iphone app fueled installation that straddles art, urban design, and horticulture. In configurable terrariums, ferns and mosses suspend like a primordial visage of Mesa Verde, embedded with sophisticated sensors allowing users to feed their plants from their smart phones—a welcome adaptation for the traveler tired of finding a house plant sitter.
Architizer-er Caitlin Blanchfield sat down with HB in their studio to learn a bit more about their budding metropolis was built. Add To Collection Save this image to a collection What was the starting point for plant-in city: is it an architectural project, an art installation, or something akin to gardening? There is this play between low-tech and high-tech.