Garden Accessories, Wall Planters, Garden Art. Eco and Chic.

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588677288488827712011-07-07T18:00:14.329-07:00Garden Accessories, Wall Planters, Garden Art. Eco and Chic.Garden accessories in the contemporary garden. With an emphasis on eco and chic style. Topics include green walls, wall planters and garden art. This is product placement galore.Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-62600534458945356302010-07-30T15:20:00.000-07:002011-05-06T01:20:50.429-07:00Contemporary Hanging Baskets are Garden Art (as well as being useful)

There is oddles of fun to be had with Garden Beet's Stainless Steel Contemporary Hanging Planters. Not only are they sculptural but the can also provide a very stylish frame for dramatic hanging plants. Plus the baskets move in the wind and look great when spun- children enjoy spinning ( advised to be done without the plants).

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-5450131762444509902010-06-04T13:29:00.000-07:002011-06-25T18:29:54.385-07:00Garden Wall Art at Chelsea 2010. Its green living in wall planters.

My brief for Chelsea was to create garden wall art that looks great. Simple. Using Woolly Pockets the walls of Steve Myburgh's show stand became living art complete with all the modern contemporary creatures required for green living such as worms, soil and the odd pesky snail. A range of geraniums, ferns, mint, sage, ipomea, ajuga and various others were planted in each wall planter to

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-77079197121586547972010-06-02T01:33:00.000-07:002011-06-25T18:28:30.563-07:00Hanging Chairs are the coolest garden accessories

Your outdoors can be filled with all types of garden accessories. But the grandest of all has to be one that can be sat in - lasts- and allows hours of sublime gardening chill time. Garden Beet's Cove hanging chair fits the description. A quailty hanging chair that can with stand the elements. Sure its expensive. But any brand new hanging chair under a £1000 is unlikely to survive the outdoors.

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-80295254903578869712010-04-27T00:58:00.000-07:002011-06-25T18:24:55.089-07:00Wall planters gone cubed - vertical surfaces and roofs are flowering gardens

In need of a wall planter? Check out this fab contemporary house extension in Venice. The walls and roof are planted with a variety of sedums and succulents. What a great gardening solution for those who have little space but yearn the joys of growing plants. There are various systems that can be used to create wall gardens. A system different to the one shown above are Woolly Pockets -

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-19246537825867825902010-04-11T10:44:00.000-07:002011-06-25T18:26:36.228-07:00Trialing trailing plants for wall planters and vertical gardens using Woolly Wally Pockets

Installed some trial wall planters today. Still not finished - it is work in progress. I am wanting to achieve an instant solid living wall or vertical garden. Eventually I will re-plant with herbs and other edibles but for the moment am experimenting with different plants. I purchased a 5 litre pot of trailing thyme and divided it. Its done a great job of concealing the middle Woolly Pocket.

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-32538325305333046312010-03-23T00:12:00.000-07:002010-03-23T00:12:35.288-07:00Humble umbrella accessories show garden possibility. Stephanie Imbeau at Channel 4

The problem with accessories in the garden is often their poor placement. Sometimes an object in the garden just needs to be used over and over again - in a considered artful way. If an object's colour and form can be repeated in an original way often a brilliant pattern can be produced. And sometimes its the use of the most unexpected outdoor accessories that can create a space with impact

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-18958008375324318062010-03-05T05:03:00.000-08:002010-03-05T05:03:45.101-08:00Ecobuild did not feature many funky cool garden accessories but there was one great big gardening idea

Ecobuild 2010 was yesterday's activity for Garden Beet. The show is not aimed at the domestic market so garden accessories were few are far between. Eco build is about big buildings and big super duper budgets. But there was one garden related product that has already begun to influence the domestic garden accessory range. And its pretty funky and cool. Green walls. This style of gardening

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-24150316538962528252010-02-28T06:37:00.000-08:002010-02-28T06:45:35.292-08:00Help its raining and I am having a garden party

What to do if it rains on your garden party or picnic? Go inside. And then drink and eat from partyware inspired by plants. What else can a garden party host do? 1. Alice in wonderland style can be created with Mustardseed and Moonshine botanically accurate crockery. Made in South Africa. Safe for use in microwave, dishwasher and conventional oven. 2. Or if you are an Australian waiting for

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-81075307974603442412010-02-19T02:15:00.000-08:002011-06-25T18:21:14.622-07:00Garden walls require some 'green' thinking for the future. Are they accessories or major design features?

Outdoor walls and fences are more than mere garden accessories. In urban gardens it is often the walls that can take up the most surface area. Compare your garden wall area to your planting bed, grassed and paved areas. The wall may just win the surface area competition. Fences are designed to provide visual and physical barriers and are therefore positioned around eye height - they are designed

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-47998270394685890832010-02-08T03:40:00.000-08:002011-06-25T18:22:25.993-07:00Hanging Chairs. Kinetic Garden Art for Swinging Adults

London, UK - 2009 Trees hang leaves. Tick, yes, that is garden art. My next door neighbour hangs from his very ugly hanging chair drinking beer whilst watching the trees do some never ending hanging. Cross no, that is not garden art. London, UK - 2010 That ugly blue nylon rope dangling from the other neighbour's over hanging branch is going to be supporting a chic type of hanging chair. Come

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-80571816028727388292010-02-01T23:30:00.000-08:002011-06-25T18:19:30.991-07:00Polka Dot Plates are THE Garden Accessories for Stylish Children. But Only With Pink Candy and Lime Green

Not all polka dots are the same. I think the polka dot plates shown above are a great summary of how polka dots should look. I associate polka dots with candy, over the top fairy floss, pink, fun and children. So am always slightly disappointed when I see a mature version of polka dots (below). Instead of lolly pink there is a muted red or burgundy and a deep dark green instead of fluorescent

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-54335642505113592242010-01-09T02:55:00.000-08:002011-06-25T18:17:36.320-07:00Green Walls and Living Walls | Garden Accessories that Allow Vertical Gardening on Fences

Its pretty safe to say there is almost always a vertical space (usually a fence) defining an urban garden. Garden accessories and plants are frequently used to obscure the views to the fence. Once upon a time I would have recommended someone to consider the fence as a design feature rather than trying to obscure it with plantings. Perhaps a good coat of paint and some metal wall art or maybe an

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-30345137915174198782010-01-08T06:10:00.000-08:002010-01-08T06:10:33.226-08:00Garden Accessories: siting a garden clock in the contemporary garden

Weather and time instruments as garden accessories? A very handy garden accessory I believe. Garden Clocks need to be a decent size so they can accommodate distant gazes as one ploughs the vegetable garden but also look chic if its going to be accommodated in the contemporary garden. But is there an interesting selection for the contemporary gardener? Yes but not enough. Garden Beet has

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-86108175295666245622009-12-27T01:58:00.000-08:002011-06-25T18:15:55.688-07:00Hanging Baskets | Suspended Heights, the Y-axis and Handbag Plants

Suspending anything mid air can create an exciting spatial dynamic. It appears magical - even if there is a slight thin wire holding an object from a roof or tree. It can also divide a space and make a large area become more intimate. The object does not need to be solid nor opaque but to be effective it does need to be large enough to slightly obscure the distant view. The hanging object could

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-9516148806952194742009-11-06T13:42:00.000-08:002011-06-25T18:11:51.924-07:00Garden accessories - what is in your tool box? Whatever it is consider repeating it - its a key design trick

REPEAT The principle of repetition in design is nothing new but very few people use this technique in the garden (from what I can see). It seems that most end up with a 'mixed bag' in the garden creating a visual mess. Yet it is normal when inside, say at the dining table, to create visual harmony. I think its pretty safe to safe that Mr and Mrs Average have matching crockery. But why do

Garden Accessorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798376768192963455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-758867728848882771.post-4112902415899100312009-11-06T06:40:00.000-08:002011-06-25T18:10:06.313-07:00Garden Accessories, surely garden design is the only real eco chic modern solution?

Garden Accessories, no matter how eco chic and modern, can never EVER replace good design. And I sell garden accessories! I am not going to bleet on about the rules of good design in a point by point fashion. The blog world has done it to death. And to prove it check out the garden design blog on the BBC . But lets just say garden accessories will never sort out the basic issues that are

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