The Duchess of Northumberland is creating an ambitious public garden on her husband's ancestral home in Alnwick, England. Marrying a modern style garden with what remains of the original 18th-centur...
Seed tape is a strip of thin, biodegradable paper with seeds evenly spaced along its length. Use seed tape in a garden or even in a little planting bed or window box and plants will sprout up in evenl...
It's green month at AT and we're exploring ways to add green products, like the obvious: plants(!), to our home. So we love the Idyllic Tabletop Garden by Chris Collicott, which is small enough to fit...
Food so local that it comes from the building next door? The New York Times examines the idea of vertical farming in urban centers and shows us that architects, designers and agriculturalists are fa...
>> Enter Slideshow The ephemeral garden has made its second annual appearance, offering Parisians a chance to stop and smell the flowers, plants, herbs and trees that have blossomed on the vast gra...
Rain gardens are ideal for DC because they mimic the region's pre-settlement swamps. Rain gardens are designed to slow rain water and trap it in a way that's good for your garden and the environmen...
Sharing inspiration is what makes AT (and the web) interesting. With Garden Month just about to end over (but only on AT, not at home), I wanted to share some really lovely emails I received since ...
There's a garden hose spicket on the outside of our building. We use it to water the planters around the trees out front. But it definitely won't reach our windows or flower boxes. With this handy l...
We stumbled upon this reading garden at our local library, and were immediately struck by the low maintenance design. With comfortable chairs and no grass to mow, this garden makes excellent use of...
We occasionally see these mid-century modern indoor planters that make us look twice. This is one of those - we love the stand's tapered legs and the white insert that turned out to be......
"As modern gardeners increasingly wean themselves from Miracle-Gro and Sevin, there is much to be learned in these old notes." Anne Raver This is to inspire you for Garden Month. A number of years ...
Okay, this may be the hot news in Red Hook these days. But a short walk to Fairway over the weekend revealed that the neighborhood's also blessed with more than a few beautiful community gardens......
Natural Home magazine offers suggestions for creating a magical and whimsical garden. The article "Finding Neverland" recommends adding soy candles and energy-efficient LED holiday strings to your o...
This modern trellis over at ATSF yesterday reminded us of the Affirmation Arts building on West 37th Street. The gallery building is clad in metal and has a modern trellis as a major part of its fac...
Maybe we're just nosy neighbors, but we're waiting for them to come back out this year. That photo up top is of the ferns that live in our neighbors' window boxes each summer......
So, we've passed the first day of summer and we are now moving into the thick of it. That means that NOW MORE THAN EVER it's time to get out your green thumb and build your own garden, flowerbox, f...
We found this Sunset landscaping book at a thrift store this weekend and couldn’t believe how great some of the garden structure suggestions were. It’s becoming a marvelous resource for some...
When we first had a balcony, we filled it with plants that all died in the DC heat. Looking around at other DC gardens, we've noticed we're not the only ones struggling to keep plants alive. So we a...
The auction house Phillips de Pury asked a group of international designers to work with their waste materials when creating homes for some of Britain's threatened species of birds, bats and bees. M...
Looking at garden catalogs is an annual occasion at our house. While it's usually window shopping and imagining "WHAT IF WE LIVED IN THE COUNTRY", tucked away inside are always a few super cool, use...
On pins and needles. A pin frog is a home accessory that has been around for many, many years. They're used to help in arranging flowers......
Looking for inspiration for your own little patch of land? Bartholdi Park sits just behind the Botanical Garden’s Conservatory off the National Mall. If you've been to the conservatory recently,...
Because it's Garden Month here at AT, we wanted to look into solutions for watering houseplants or even window boxes outside. At the last meetup, The Gardening Meetup, we were tipped off to these g...
The idealized roof garden. A composite of a field and an urban roof. >> See Slideshow Elliott Maltby, principal and founder of Thread Collective, a Brooklyn architecture studio that "explores th...
Last week we found out how to make a flower box out of a credit card. Now this little project, also from Instructables, makes an incandescent light bulb into a symbol of green, not waste......
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