a collection of gardens
lat. hortus gardinus : a cultivated enclosed area
“the real test of a well-composed garden is not how nicely it blooms but how beautifully it decomposes” – Piet Oudolf, avant-gardener.
I saw an old man who had a few acres of desert soil, unsuitable for farming, pasture or vine. Yet, by planting amongst the scrub bushes a little grass, some lilies, verbena and poppies, in his heart he felt like a king; and returning home late at night, his table was * laid with home-grown food. - Virgil
Physical Gardens
- church_garden FoAM Amsterdam's edible garden project
- tuin van Jan Amsterdam public park designed in workshops by FoAM with neighbors and experts.
Other gardens:
- Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary > Indian ecosystem gardening.
- Costa di La > protecting Prossecco-diversity.
- ecocathedral > architectural project.
- Vitaulium renaissance garden/poem.
- edible wildflowers. > Wilde Bertram
- Green Light at the Environmental Health Clinic < https://wikis.nyu.edu/xdesign/mediawiki/index.php/Green_Light
- Moss House http://www.framemag.com/?module=news/389
- Guerilla Gardening
- Behind Closed Doors: Secret Garden: http://behindcloseddoors.org.uk/?page_id=9
- roof farm Antwerp: http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Article/Detail.aspx?articleid=DMA25072008_009
- rooftop gardens
- temporary gardens » http://www.temporaeregaerten.de/
- guerrilla gardening (on kuro5hin) » http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/1/11/31014/1305
- “greening the city” http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000734.html
- crack gardens: http://pruned.blogspot.com/2009/05/crack-gardens.html
Proposed Gardens
- prosthetic gardens > http://pruned.blogspot.com/2008/03/prosthetic-gardens.html
gro 'off world'
- “How do you get plants to grow on Mars?” http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/05aug_nostress.htm?list179029
- “The Physics of Space Gardens” http://science.nasa.gov/ppod/y2003/21apr_greenbubble.htm
Digital Gardens
Hybrid Reality Gardens
as part of the groworld directions
- Interactive plant growing: http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/CONCEPTS/PlantsConcept.html
- Biomodd: http://www.moosecreek.us/biomodd/
- Funky forest: http://muonics.net/site_docs/work.php?id=41
- Packetgarden: http://packetgarden.com/
- Growing a ship in a forest: http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/growing-a-hidden-architecture-christian-kerrigan.html
- Akousmaflore: http://www.scenocosme.com/akousmaflore_en.htm
- google mapping deforestation: http://blog.google.org/2009/12/seeing-forest-through-cloud.html
Edible Gardens
- edible gardening: experimental guide set up for city-gardens
- edible guilds: the guilds in FoamLab's garden - Amsterdam
- Masanobu Fukuoka: notes on vegetable gardening
- Urban Edibles: mapping wild edible plants in and around Amsterdam
- eco-groente-tuinieren, van elke groete: wanneer te zaaien en naats wie, etc. http://nl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Leer_jezelf_ecologisch_tuinieren/De_moestuin:
- nederlandse eetbare planten: wanneer te zaaien van welke familie, etc http://www.permacultuurnederland.org/planten.php
- edible gardens & (seed) nurseries: in Holland and Belgium
- fruit: Dutch and Belgium places to find unusual & uncultivated fruits
Gardening Techniques
- Fukuoka gardening reading notes from “The One Straw Revolution”
- Bokashi fermentation method. claims less CO2 out-put than compost and more nutrients left.
- Bringing the soil to life reading notes about humus, compost and covercrops from “Gaia's Garden”
- keyhole gardens
- growing plants in the dark: http://www.borderlands.com/archives/arch/darkplant.htm
decorative / sculptural gardening
- arborsculpture » http://www.arborsmith.com/
- living architecture: http://www.bio-pro.de/en/region/freiburg/magazin/03899/index.html
roof gardens & urban gardening
- “The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series)” » http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1934170011
- “Midori no Yane” » http://www.suntory.com/about/news/2008/10033.html
on gardening
- Michael Pollan
gardening and climate change
- Volg de klimaatverandering in jouw achtertuin: http://www.natuur-kalender.be/
- Het fenologisch waarnemersnetwerk van Nederland: http://www.natuurkalender.nl
gardening initiatives
- community of urban gardeners> http://www.villageharvest.org
- urban wild food map> urban edibles
other gardens and gardening kits
- 'The TSG Toolkit is an open source platform for cultivating public “sound gardens” within urban environments.' http://www.andinc.org/tsg/
- moss grafitti > http://www.storiesfromspace.co.uk/data/html/mossgraffiti.html
- growing-book
http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2007/05/08/growing-book-by-eric-zhang/
Books are always considered as static objects in people’s mind, transferring through words, pictures and imagination they produce. To break this traditional impression, I embed some industrial design elements in this prose florilegium which name is “book on life”. People can plant whatever they like in the left side of the book, they should care for it and watch it grow. During this process readers do not only learn the meaning of life but they create life themselves. 8 small LED lights are fixed on the bottom of the plants, in the evening the book can be turned on to become a lamp with the unique light reflect from the leaves. Designer: Eric Zhang
- popup portable greenhouses
http://www.comfortchannel.com/level.itml/icOid/5118/
Flowerhouse Portable Pop Up Greenhouse Kits are an amazing idea and about as cost effective as trying to build your own cheap and easy portable greenhouse. Imagine taking the principle of the Pop Up Tent and applying the technology to a portable greenhouse. Flowerhouse has several different greenhouse sizes to suit your gardening needs, such as the portable greenhouse, portable mini greenhouse, portable greenhouse kits, mini greenhouse portable, mini portable greenhouse kits, and a portable collapsible greenhouse.
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