Can You Dig It?

Since three in four Americans show an interest in gardening today, it seems fitting to build a community garden for resident's personal and gastric enjoyment. Before you say, "Lori, we love this idea, but simply don't have the space to create a garden area - guess we'll have to pass.," consider these really cool and innovative products that will allow your residents to garden to their heart's content…in any kind of environment.

If you don't have the space, but the residents have patios, or you have common areas that could use a little flower power, Urban Garden offers a pocket garden system made from recycled bottles for $29.99! It makes a perfect move in gift for the gardener, and imagine how these could beautify common area spaces! If your budget is tight, there's a 2-pocket flower box for $15.99. Both are lightweight and fold for easy storage.

For that ugly old wall you just don't know what to do with, Plants On Walls living wall kit will allow you to create gardens where you never thought possible. A 32' by 51' wall kit starts at $528, and can be rearranged as the mood fits.

If character is your calling, Springwise reported this week on a spiral tube shaped device called the Whirligro. So chic, and so unique! The Whirligro can be used in gardens, on balconies, decking, flatroofs or anywhere. The plants grow in compost/soil in durable growing tubes. Love it!



So, there you go - get your gardening gloves on and get busy.
Anybody doing interesting things with you community gardening efforts? Don't hesitate to share.

Drive Your Plants Up The Wall

Trendcentral reported this week on new products to bring the outdoors in and I about flipped my lid over a new modular planter system called Woolly Pocket Wally. With this device you can create an indoor plant wall - just think about how cool this would look on that wall you don’t know what to do with in your office, or how easily you could spice up a model by hanging one of these in the kitchen and planting basil in it. (Get it, spice up?)
Prices start at $49, which is far cheaper than most art.

While you’re at the site, check out the garden systems designed for schools. Pretty fabulous.

The Tap is Back

It is estimated that 8 out of every 10 water bottles ends up in landfills.
If that is not bad enough, think about all the oil needed to make those bottles. According to the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based nonprofit, even if every bottle were recycled, the amount of oil needed to make those bottles equals about 15 million barrels a year, or enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year.

Get glasses. Have them inscribed with “The Tap is Back”, or “We drink our H2O right out of the tap”. Serve them to your potential clients and residents. Be proud to drink tap water.

And next time you pass by a garden hose, do what you did as a kid. Take a good long swig.
Tap water is chic. Tap water is vogue. The tap is back.