We like it wild: bottle gardens. As much as we love to garden, sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day to do it all.
If there’s a way we can shorten our to-do list, we’ll take it. This week’s project, a no-fuss recycled windowsill herb garden, has knocked watering the plants off our list. Self-watering planters like these aren’t a new idea; we remember our own childhood craft books that taught us how to poke holes through Dixie cups or invert two liter plastic bottles to grow our own little bean garden. This grown-up version is much better looking and works great for small herbs and plants.
We used beer bottles for ours, but you could make a larger garden with wine bottles too. Although this project may take a little more effort than your average windowsill garden initially, the pay off is worth it for us: we get to usefully recycle bottles, we get fresh herbs we don’t have to dote on, and we get a sparkling window display.
CLICK HERE for the full (photo illustrated) project steps after the jump! Living Plant Chandeliers. Sunday, 08 April 2012 GreenMuze Staff The 38 Series from Bocci.
Canada-based design firm Bocci has created these super funky living chandeliers. Comprised of blown glass, designer Omer Arbel created the ’38 Series’ using a random mixing of forms and shapes, with the addition of different plant species to produce an innovative light sculpture that brings greenery into every room. Visit: Via DesignBoom. Dump A Day 35 Amazing Uses For Old Pallets. How to Make Moss Graffiti - The Step by Step "Grow" Guide. Before getting into our guide on making moss graffiti, let’s talk about the impact of paint in the graffiti world.
Obviously paint is not the most environmentally friendly medium for artistic expression. A significant number of these products contain substances that may be harmful to the environment such as lead, cadmium, formaldehyde, CFCs in paint spray, and many other similarly toxic substances. An alternative to using paint is to use moss instead. This medium is not only ecologically sound but also grows with time. Choosing The Right Spot Areas that are exposed to the sun throughout the day are not conducive for moss growth.
Planning The Graffiti Piece Good artwork takes careful preparation. Gathering The Materials Once a tentative plan has been chalked out, it is now time to collect the materials needed to churn out the moss paint”. Preparing The Moss For Processing Wash the moss carefully. Mixing It All Together. Small Space Garden Inspiration. By Becky Striepe on April 18, 2011 I hear a lot of folks say that they can't grow food because they live in a small space, but that's not true at all.
While it might feel like your tiny apartment doesn't have room for any green, there are all sorts of clever ways to squeeze some food plants into a small space. Here's some small space garden inspiration to get you going. String Garden I'm smitten with this lovely hanging string garden from Design*Sponge! Window Farming Window farming is a new trend in small space gardening that involves growing a vertical, hydroponic crop of food plants right in the window. The Salad Box Themed gardens are super fun, and the salad box is a great way to grow a bounty of veggies in a small space. He's using a bowl, but a box will work just as well. Image Credit: Creative Commons photo by SparkCBC About the Author: Urban Vertical Garden Built From 100's Of Soda Bottles. As part of an innovative partnership called Home Sweet Home (Lar Doce Lar) between multidisciplinary design firm Rosenbaum and TV producer Luciano Huck, the teams went through dozens of Brazilian homes doing dramatic makeovers of interior and exterior spaces.
On their 48th home Rosenbaum designed a pretty amazing vertical garden that was suspended in a narrow walkway just outside the house. Reponse to the garden was so huge the firm quickly released design schematics (in Portugese) detailing how to build one. Kokedama String Garden Design*Sponge. Vertical Herb Gardens. Comments on 04/22 at 01:35 AM Oh wow, I like this too.
I'll have to research this...like how do they get the plants to stay in the box?! I also like the boxes themselves. I am hoping to build a similar one soon for a tabletop salad garden. on 04/22 at 12:56 PM Hey! I want to build one too! On 04/22 at 01:00 PM My question would be how to water it. on 04/22 at 01:02 PM Inside the house environment. on 04/29 at 12:33 PM Wow, that's pretty awesome (not really a word I use that often!).
On 05/26 at 03:40 AM Idon't know if you can do vertical planting, but I am doing an art project in which I give out seeds of trees that survived the atomic bombing to the people of US and the world. On 05/28 at 01:14 PM Saw this article and it made me think of your post...