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Vertical Gardens

alms — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:29:27 -0800

As a boy he grew plants up his bedroom wall. Patrick Blanc's most recent vertical garden is eight stories tall.

The Japanese Garden

Effigy2000 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:54:57 -0800

Paradise: The Gardens of Tokyo. A collection of amazing photographs of Japanese gardens as taken by Tim Porter. Impressed and want to see more Japanese gardens? Look here and here for more links to more photos of some beautiful Japanese-style gardens from around the world. For further reading, check out Meditations on the Japanese Garden and The Modern Japanese Garden. And if after all of that you feel inspired to turn your garden into a Japanese garden of your own, The Japanese Garden Journal has you covered. Mind you, building the bridge sounds kind of tricky...

(My)Folia

Stewriffic — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:18:57 -0800

Gardeners unite! Folia is a new website for gardeners to organize, document and share their adventures. And now you too can obsess about your seed saving and hardiness zones. Seemingly patterned along the same lines as Ravelry (previously), (My)Folia (still some name confusion!) has recently gone into public beta. Unlike Ravelry, there's no waiting list (yet!). One of us predicted these social networking/hobby specific sites would be popping up. I need to step away from the computer now.

You can't spell "terrarium" without "terrar"

fiercecupcake — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:43:45 -0800

When it's been gray for days and it seems like spring will never come, making a terrarium (sometimes known as a Wardian case) is a good way to keep from going mad. Your own little ecosystem can be set up easily and cheaply in almost any clear-walled, enclosed container -- even a Mason jar or a two-liter Coke bottle. (Inspired by this.)

Bent fruit

Mitheral — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:52:33 -0800

An espalier is a plant trained to grow flat against a wall, fence, or trellis. Developed by the Romans, they were popular in Middle Age Europe as a source of fruit in castles and monasteries because they could be grown against the keep's stone walls leaving open space unencumbered. Now they are an excellent choice for apartment and condo dwellers with small yards. For larger yards espaliers can be used as a decorative feature, to provide shade or to increase the variety of trees under cultivation. University of Florida PDF detailing the technique.

Looking North

JohnR — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:33:51 -0800

MAKING HAPPY/one human life is a photoblog by Gayla Trail.

Da-Da-Da-Da-Dumm...

hermitosis — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:33:06 -0800

A clip from "Grey Gardens" on Broadway! (YouTube). The critics have been won over. Albert Maysle has commented on how the Beales might react to their portrayals. Meanwhile, a new doc, "The Beales of Grey Gardens", made from Al's previously unused footage, comes with the Criterion Collection DVD of the original. Also, previously.

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Little Sparta

johnny novak — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 06:03:07 -0800

Ian Hamilton Finlay is a poet, dramatist and short story writer. However, his greatest work is his garden, Little Sparta, located in the central belt of Scotland and free to visit, it is perhaps Scotland's most impressive piece of public art.

The Poison Garden

onhazier — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:38:00 -0800

Alnwick Castle , used in various films including Harry Potter and Robin Hood, has started planting the Poison Garden as part of its most recent additions (pdf). The Poison Garden includes belladonna and other examples of the worlds most deadly plants. Some specimens are kept behind bars for security purposes. Both the castle and the extensive garden seem like wonderful places to visit.

Collect Britain

plep — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 07:49:32 -0800

Collect Britain 'presents 90,000 images and sounds from the British Library, chosen to evoke places in the UK and beyond.' Dialects, gardens, sketches, stamps, and all kinds of stuff.

The fabulous ruins of Detroit

ryanshepard — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:40:30 -0800

The fabulous ruins of Detroit: "After decades of blight, large swathes of Detroit are being reclaimed by nature. Roughly a third of this 139-square-mile city consists of weed-choked lots and dilapidated buildings . . . rather than fight this return to nature, urban farmers have embraced it, gradually converting 15 acres of idle land into more than 40 community gardens and microfarms — some consuming entire blocks." [note: NY Times link]

You are what you EatThinkFeelSayShitBreatheFuck....

troutfishing — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:59:56 -0800

"Going Wild in Urban America - To be an individual hunter-gatherer in America is to lead a lonely life." Southern Californian hippy college student alienates friends, gains weight by subsisting on stolen figs (more inside).

Nature Diaries

plep — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:03:21 -0800

Wild West Yorkshire Nature Diary. 'My diary describes a year in the life of woodland, field, marsh, river, canal . . . and a fairly wild back garden . . . in the Calder valley in coal measures country near Wakefield.'
Richard Bell's nature diary has been online since 1998.
The site's links page leads to more nature diaries and related resources :
Ackworth School's natural history diary, Roseberry Topping, an environmentally friendly slug trap, Yorkshire dialect verse, wildscapes from Texas, Notes from Pure Land Mountain (a journal from countryside Japan), and more.
Although it's not linked, An English Country Garden, chronicling a garden in a small village in Dorset, would not be out of place here; neither would Blackberry Creek Journal, 'a country newsletter about the seasons, animals, gardens and people of a small Michigan farm'. There is a huge collection of gardening journals and homepages here. [more inside]

homunculus — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:19:16 -0800

The Eden Project celebrates its first birthday today. Happy birthday.