well, what do you think about the boskke sky planter?
i might wonder if i woke up on the moon if my ficus were hovering above me…
Posts Tagged as ‘new ideas’
December 1, 2008
hmmm…
November 20, 2008
gardening mama
in the category of new, cool techie things for kids (and kid-like adults):
gardening mama, a new video game
for the little cultivators.
too bad it’s not coming out until spring…
no virtual gardening until the snow melts, i guess.
November 5, 2008
change has come…
well, we did it.
and now change is upon us.
let’s keep our momentum.
along those lines,
pot & box has some exciting
expansions to be announced soon…
October 24, 2008
green thumb white house
how fabulous would it be to see an organic farm at 1600 pennsylvania avenue? the who farm founders daniel bowman and casey gustowarow are touring our fine country in the pursuit of making that *ground-breaking* idea into reality.—in an attention-grabbing mirror-image bus..
the organic food advocate michael pollan has given the boys his endorsement, as well [...]
October 21, 2008
green choice black pots
when i started my first gardening business eight years ago, there was reduce and reuse, but no recycle for the heaps of black plastic pots and flats that plants and flowers came in…
currently, goldner walsh nursery in pontiac accepts all garden containers, regardless of color, size, shape, or political endorsements for a new recycling initiative. [...]
June 27, 2008
walk the talk…
the weekend before last, my friend julie maloney & i went on the ann arbor garden walk. the first house we visited was titled ‘falling waters,’ owned by larry nisson. walking through the gate into the back garden transported us into a place of, well, falling waters…as well as precariously balanced rock statues, artistically planted [...]
June 9, 2008
turning radius…
have you discovered radius garden tools?
developed by local entrepreneur bruce baker and now sold everywhere, the lime green-handled tools make digging in our clay soil as much fun as cutting into a piece of lemon poppy seed cake. after a couple weeks of planting season, i usually have blisters in my palms from my [...]
June 2, 2008
you say potato, i say purple potato vine
the great thing about gardening is that there’s a niche for each…
(when i wrote that, i pronounced each to rhyme with niche–try it, it’s a giggler.)
especially at this time of year, i get a lot of questions about vegetable gardens. it’s funny how i can be so obsessed with flower gardening when there is a [...]
