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PlantTherapy: Saturday Garden Clippings

2008-01-25-greenbuilding.jpg Five plant links clipped and gathered from this past week's blogosphere.

Green building facades, tomatos by Campbell's, this year's perennial plant hopefuls, eggshell planters and witch hazel:

Take a look after the jump...


City Dirt is responsible for posting on this building with its 'living facade', above, built in 'Seoul's Gangnam district – in close proximity to Dosan Park. Primarily residential in the past, the neighborhood is undergoing a rapid transformation into an upscale commercial district full of shops and restaurants.'

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Garden Rant is looking at Perennial Plant Association award winners for when the ground thaws - and not too impressed. What say you?

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This Garden is Illegal talks about growing the same veggie varieties developed by companies like Campbell's and Tabasco to get good, consistent taste.

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Housemartin shows us what actual witch hazel looks like - very cool!

2008-01-eggshells.jpgMr. Brown Thumb reminds us that eggs make great vessels for starting seedlings.

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Stuart Robinson discusses the fact that all of those decorative garden pebbles we buy actually are a natural resource that is being depleted.


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Comments (1)

The article on rocks is great, I'm always so frustrated when I see people buying polished rocks at Ikea. I don't think people even think about where they come from.

posted by heathermg on 2008-01-26 17:08:06
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