Tag: urban
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The walled backyard design ideas in this small city plot provide numerous focal points that help to make the space feel larger than it is. Walled gardens have a lovely feeling of privacy, but the clever elements used in this design also draw the eye away from the surrounding walls and encourage the viewer to…
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Living in a city setting, apartment, or simply a smaller yard doesn’t have to stop you from gardening. There are plenty of innovative urban gardening ideas that allow anyone to grow ornamental and edible plants in the space they have available. Whether you’re looking for a backyard idea that works in a balcony setting, need…
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Fanciful flowerbeds? Not for Lisa Waud. The botanical artist, who last year won the American Horticultural Society’s top award for floral design, gets her color fix through imaginative, sometimes surreal work projects—like adorning a blighted duplex with 40,000 blooms for an art installation or embellishing an old Cadillac with flowers for rapper Danny Brown’s video…
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Chicago is home to hundreds of urban farms and gardens, growing fresh produce for communities in need. Some are nestled in public parks, while others are maintained by neighborhood organizations, but only a handful resemble the urban farm operated by nonprofit organization Plant Chicago. The entire farm is housed inside a renovated 20th-century firehouse. Just…
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The sound of freeway traffic, a view of the neighbors’ yards, and a patchy, sloped lawn were the defining features of Scot Eckley and Devin Fitzpatrick’s small Seattle backyard when they moved into the home 19 years ago. In other words, “It was a dream come true,” Fitzpatrick says with a laugh. The pair—he’s a…
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In 1982, artist Agnes Denes planted 2.2 acres of wheat on waste ground in New York’s Battery Park, near the recently completed World Trade Center. The towers soared over a golden field, as if dropped into Andrew Wyeth’s bucolic painting Christina’s World. Denes’s Wheatfield: A Confrontation was a challenge to what she called a “powerful paradox”:…