The Step-Climbing Garden

Posted by Johnny Cat in Home & Garden, Pictures, Travel & Places on October 2, 2009 at 2:54 pm

Photo by Iwan Baan

Photo by Iwan Baan

Gorgeous design and blending of utilitarian and aesthetic elements.  More photos at link (The Contemporist).

The New York based landscape and urban design office of Balmori Associates has designed the “Garden That Climbs The Steps” in Bilbao, Spain.

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The Crack Garden

Posted by Alex in Home & Garden on June 4, 2009 at 7:21 am


Photo credits: Kevin Conger (top left), Nancy Conger (top right), Tom Fox (bottom)

The Crack Garden is an award-winning project by CMG Landscape Architecture in San Francisco, California. The project transforms a desolate concrete landscape into a lush garden:

Inspired by the tenacious plants that pioneer the tiny cracks of urban landscapes, a backyard is transformed through hostile takeover of an existing concrete slab by imposing a series of "cracks". The rows of this garden contain a lushly planted mix of herbs, vegetables, flowers, and rogue weeds retained for their aesthetic value.

Link – via Pruned

 
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Yes ... Now Even Your Houseplants can Twitter

Posted by Urbanist in Gadget, Home & Garden on March 30, 2009 at 6:04 pm

Pothos has thousands of followers and gives regular updates. Pothos … is also a plant. A built-in moisture meter relays messages about the plant’s current state in order to remind its owner when it needs watering. This is, one has to admit, a potentially wonderful innovation for those of us with thumbs that are anything but green. Still, Twitter is all the rage these days, sure, but plants Twittering? Has this fad gone too far?

Are you slowly killing your houseplants? Is it because you’re too busy Twittering? THEN HAS THE INTERNET GOT THE SOLUTION FOR YOU!

link -via huffingtonpost

 
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Garden camera with timelapse capability

Posted by Queuebot in Gadget, Home & Garden on March 29, 2009 at 8:05 pm

A simple, weatherproof camera designed for the garden or wildlife enthusiast.   It can be programmed to take photos at variable intervals for the creation of time-lapse movie files.

It can focus as close as 20″ away to illustrate petal growth or, with its wide 54″ field of view, it can capture perennials as they grow to conceal your spent spring bulb foliage. The camera takes a picture at one of six pre-determined intervals (five seconds to 24 hours) and combines them into a single 1280 x 1024 resolution AVI movie file for easy playback on a computer. It has a light sensor that turns off the camera at dusk and back on at dawn, allowing for continued video capture each day. Movies are timestamped and stored on the camera’s removable 2GB USB flash drive, which can take up to 18,000 pictures.

Link – via gizmodo

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Ha-Ha! You Ran Into a Ha-Ha!

Posted by Alex in Book & Lit, Home & Garden on January 10, 2009 at 7:40 am

Betcha didn’t know that "ha-ha" is an actual word meaning a trench, basically a sunken fence to keep livestocks from coming into your backyard while preserving the uncluttered look of the landscape:

… the name is derived from the response of ordinary folk on encountering them and that they were, "…then deemed so astonishing, that the common people called them Ha! Ha’s! to express their surprise at finding a sudden and unperceived check to their walk."

More on Ha-ha at Wikipedia – via Fancy Notion’s Word of the Day

 
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