MANGA Farming.

Recycling comic books to grow plants. How cool is that?





まんが農業　MANGA Farming : koshikawachi

(via my twitter sensei, brainpicker)

Potus Pot.

You can buy one here (with the cute little stand) or make your own.


Potus Pot - Inhabitat Shop

Bonsai forest kit.

I love tiny trees.


Elegantly understated, this bonsai forest pairs clean lines and industrial materials with the ancient art of miniature gardening. The contemporary design maintains a traditional awareness to complement a variety of both indoor and outdoor spaces.

This kit includes everything needed to grow and sculpt trees into works of living art: seedling training pots, tree and moss seed, seed-starting wafers, growing medium, and river stones. Also included are bonsai scissors, rake, and spade — authentic tools which have been made by the same company since 1663! — and complete growing directions.

Bonsai Forest Kit: Dawn Redwood : Branch: Sustainable Design for Living

Tourbillon (Whirlwind)

Wow. Just...wow.


A+A cooren design studio

(hat tip to the always fab sub-studio design blog for the amazing find)

Garden kits.

This is the time of year I really regret not having a patio or balcony to have a tiny garden. If I did, I'd be all over these garden kits from ReForm School.



ReForm School: Lost and Found

Red Casserole Herb Pots.

Sweet.


Petit Coco Red Casserole: Cute Little Herb Pots from brooklyn5and10

Postcarden Botanical.

How fun are these? SO fun.

Combining gift and greeting card, Postcarden is a fun and simple pop-out card that transforms into a mini living garden. AVAILABLE: MARCH 15,2010




Postcarden Botanical - Third Drawer Down

Sagaform Herb Pot Trio.

Sagaform's herb pot, a simple solution to prolonging the life of your fresh herbs is one of our most popular items. Now, triple the experience with the new trio. Same great design, just with three separate openings so you can keep your mint separate from your basil! Scandinavian in its simple, unadorned and practical design, this ceramic pot is an ingenious way of enjoying fresh herbs much like flowers: Insert a bunch in the enlarged opening, and keep hydrated by pouring water into the corner hole. The broad base ensures that all those little stalks have access to water, while allowing air to circulate so herbs keep from becoming limp and waterlogged. Easy to take apart for cleaning. Packaged in it's own gift box, it makes a wonderful gift. Size: 15.75" l x 5" w

Sagaform Herb Pot Trio by: Sagaform - Huset-Shop.com

Polaroid Flower Vase.

Only a prototype I'm afraid. But so cute. I hope someone picks it up.



We hang a polaroid with a small cord and a clothespin. arising from a desire of keeping the memories, I feel longing today.Nature is also what I want to keep for a long time.it is a plant in a polaroid. The illumination is for the plant, and the gentle curved shape will seem to be an image of a polaroid.

JUNG HWAJIN

(via Stilsucht)

Reusing lightbulbs as planters or mini terrariums.

I'm a sucker for repurposed light bulbs.



Instructables: Reusing Lightbulbs as planters or mini terrariums

Golems.

I wish these were actually for sale. I'd love to buy them as housewarming gifts.



An old Jewish folklore legend, tells about a creature made of mud called a Golem. The creature became animated by religious words to serve as a protector of its community, but it was considered dangerous to make it due to the imperfections of the material.

Our Golems are made entirely out of different soils from our surrounding. They are as recyclable as it can get as an answer to the increased production of plastic toys. After their production, these imperfect creations are planted in our favorite places, to protect the ones we love.

Reddish - Design Studio. Golem

DOMSAI planters.

Okay, these are ridiculously expensive ($140+), but I love the idea.




Dwell Kit Blogazine Post - Planters from Outer Space at Kaboodle

Sky planter.

Definitely made me look twice.




BOSKKE :: Sky Planter

(via Outblush)

Bio-Degradeable Indoor Gardens

I do love a Japanese Maple.


Gorgeous and eco-friendly way to add a bit of life to your workspace or home! This small pots grow either Heirloom Lavender or Japanese Maple in a pots made entirely of renewable grain husks, primarily rice hulls, and organic pigments. Great for a housewarming gift or a little something for a co-worker.

GROW GREEN! Bio-Degradeable Indoor Gardens available at Delight.com

John Benz - No. 100

Too spendy, but stunning.


John Benz creates work that is stripped down to what is essential. The flowers exist unencumbered, floating between the edges of the frame, some creamy and soft, others textured and defined, each holding their place against the deep black of the background.

John Benz - No. 100

Best interweb site I've seen all week.

This Peanut Looks Like A Duck (A site about plants that look like animals)

(via b3ta.com, who introduced their newsletter this week thusly, cementing my ridiculously big hearting of them:

There's a new newsletter on the b3ta front page, doodah, doodah, it's issue three oh seven Dave, doodah, doodah. YOU WANT TO READ IT WITH YOUR EYES, doodah, doodah. BECAUSE IT'S FULL OF LINKY PIES, doodah, doodah.)

Hasui Planter.

More greeny goodness.



Available at MollaSpace.

Landprint.

Amazing, but I hope it doesn't go mainstream. I don't know that I trust most people to wisely choose their own lawn art.


The aim of the Landprint project is to reproduce subtle patterns and photos by combining various species of plants with programmed robotics.

Plants and flowers that spawn seem to make continuous patterns with their various colours and shades seen from a distance. With the use of programmed robotics for the planting and cutting of plants, we can manipulate the evolving patterns, to render photo-like, delicate images.

Landprint | Kitchen

(via Doors of Perception's newsletter)

Park planters.

If I would ever pay $160 for a planter, this would definitely be it. Fantastic.

Generate :: Park Planters

(via Creativadoration)

Hanakotoba plant communicator.

How bizarre. I'd love to see it in action.


Hanakotoba means “Language of the Flowers” in Japanese, but the Hanakotoba communicator from e-Revolution can be used for any kind of indoor plant. By inserting the stem of Hanakotoba into your plant’s soil or water, it can convey to you what your plant cannot in a 200 word vocabulary (Japanese only).

CScout Japan - Online Shop :: Hanakotoba - plant communicator

(via The Red Ferret Journal)