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A Green Roof Grows in Brooklyn
by Future Green Studio

This green roof is on top of an Adelphi Street residence in Brooklyn. It's 600sf in area and provides a beautiful green oasis from the streetscape below......

Budget Gardening Tips for Concrete Backyard?
Good Questions

Q: My boyfriend and I just rented a beautiful garden-level apartment in a brownstone. The problem is that our backyard is all concrete with little to block the sight of our neighbors. To boot, neit...

Outdoor Artwork at Garden LM

We've visited the subject of hanging art outside before. Garden LM takes two- and three-dimensional outdoor art to beautiful heights....

Vertical Garden: A Green Wall in Islington
Architects' Journal

What a sad sight! The exterior vertical garden of Paradise Park Children's Centre in the London Borough of Islington has seen better days! Britain's first "Living Wall" was installed in 2006 and inc...

Nature Planter by Dominic D'Andrea & Tram Pham
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: White cast dry slip, lead-free underglaze and clear glaze Price Point: $375 "Nature is a modern ceramic planter intended for growing a variety of herbs and flowers. The form takes inspir...

Vertical Garden: Trellis House in Sweden

This triangular home from architects Tham & Videgard Hansson has a trellis facade surrounding the entire building — we can't wait to see what it looks like with plants and flowers!...

Upside Down Gardening: Sky Planter by Patrick Morris

By turning houseplants upside down, designer Patrick Morris has created a container that saves water and doesn't take up valuable floor space — an important factor in small space living. ...

Marianne Boesky's West Chelsea Terrace
New York Magazine

Gallerist Marianne Boesky lives above her West Chelsea gallery in a space designed by architect Deborah Berke — and she's adjacent to the Highline. She hired landscape designer Paula Hayes to ...

Travel Inspiration: Decor in Siena and Pienza, Italy

Today I want to go back to Italy and share some more pics from our vacation. The focus is two restaurants that were really good and also had awesome decor in and around them. The first one is in Si...

Hot or Not? Saks Fifth Avenue Planters

Check out these old Saks Fifth Avenue planters that have a new home on a sidewalk in Astoria, Queens — chic container gardening? You tell us... ...

Cordoba, Spain's Festival de los Patios

Kind of like Spain's outdoor version of Apartment Therapy's Small Cool contest. Cordoba's Festival de los Patios is an annual festival where participants actually compete with one another for the be...

My Great Outdoors: Julian & Melanie's Terrace

Name: Julian Downs & Melanie Menge Location: Astoria, Queens Type of space: Terrace Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We had a blank, 750 square feet terrace space to fill....

My Great Outdoors: Irene's Seaside Terrace

Name: Irene Location: Genoa, Italy Type of space: Terrace Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I live with my boyfriend, in Genoa, Italy. We have a tiny apartment with a 15 squa...

My Great Outdoors: Clem & Louisa's Plunge Pool

Name: Clem & Louisa Location: Cape Town, South Africa Type of space: Urban Backyard Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: At the end of a major renovation project we were l...

My Great Outdoors: Matt's Manhattan Roof Deck

Name Matt Location: Upper West Side, NYC Type of space: Roof Deck Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I always thought having an outdoor space in Manhattan was a real luxury...

My Great Outdoors: Chris & Diana's Red Hook Rooftop

Name: Chris & Diana Location: Red Hook, Brooklyn Type of space: Roof Garden Interior designer Diana Richards is the owner of Red Hook Anthem, a vintage clothing and housewares store in Red Hook ...

Hot Tip: Colorful Garden Hoses

Sara Kate likes blue. I like red. If you're a design head like me, and you love to garden or simply be in one with someone else gardening, you will eventually find the plain old American green garden...

Farm in a Box : Eco-Efficient Gardening

We learned from our friends at Home Grown Evolution that Home Depot will soon be carrying Farm in a Box from Earth Systems. Farm in the Box is a combined fish tank/planter box with recirculating wa...

My Great Outdoors: Anna's Shady Escape

Name: Anna Location: Mogliano Veneto, Italy (inland from Venice) Type of space: Balcony Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: When we saw this little balcony, it was love at first ...

Swedish Floating Gardens

We've never seen floating gardens before, but we stumbled upon the Landskrona, Sweden Garden Guild contest. Every August, contestants build little garden environments on a raft. And while you might...

Best Composters & Tools 2009

I've used composters inside and outside my house for many years, starting with a wooden one that I built myself and kept under the sink with red wriggler worms (vermicomposting). It was an experime...

Garden Inspiration: Plant it Black

Among the colorful, you'll also find plenty of black, white, and neutral interiors here on Apartment Therapy. But when it comes to the garden, our plants and flowers are almost always colorful. What...

My Great Outdoors: Catherine & Larry's Blooming Balcony

Name: Catherine & Larry Location: Park Avenue South Type of space: Balcony Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: The balcony is our little green oasis in the middle of the bric...

Brooklyn Beekeeper Amy
The New York Times

The Apartment Therapy team was thrilled to see our own Amy Azzarito featured in The New York Times that showcased her (illegal) beekeeping endeavors in Brooklyn... ...

My Great Outdoors: Jen's Front Porch

Name: Jen Koball Location: White Plains, New York Type of space: Front Porch Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We added the flagstone floor, a painted bench to match the front...

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