The Patient Gardener } Visiondivision
I sure hope to be around in 80 years time when the vision of this sweet project is realised, but we’ll all just have to be patient – just like the ‘Patient Gardener‘ folks at Visiondivision who dreamt up this fantastical tree-top study space on the campus of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Ten Japanese cherry trees [...]
Jacaranda Spring cycle } Photo set
It’s no secret that I’m slightly obsessed with Jacaranda trees, as blogged here and here. Just before Spring they drop their leaves, then slowly the twiggy skeleton starts to bud… tiny buds all over at first before breaking out in full bloom, dotting the skyline with bursting lilac and lining the streets with purple carpets.
Green is gold } coffee cup planters Sydney CBD
Over 1.5 billion coffee cups are thrown out each year in Australia alone. 1.5 BILLION! Holy hell that’s a lot a cup. Green is Gold is a great little project happening in Barrack st around the corner from work at the moment, one of the winning proposals of this year’s Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Street [...]
The Iraqi seed project
Farming isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when you think of Iraq. Civilians and their livelihoods are the first forgotten in war and Iraq is no truer example of this. In a country where oil is king, rendering what little farmland Iraq has left to ruin, farmers have been kept in the dark [...]
Tulips, tulips and more tulips…
Floriade 2011 in Canberra is a spectacular and florally exciting display of over 210 different varieties of flowering plants. This years theme is ‘A Feast for the Senses’.
Vegies for the Body and Soul
Around the yard things are starting to happen. The flowers are out, the summer vegies are getting a growth spurt and new fruits are beginning to appear on the fruit trees. The sweet fragrance of the citrus flowers calls to me from across the yard.
VintageDictionary Art
Vintage style illustrations printed on old dictionary pages. Recycled + nature inspired + stylish = two Cohabitaire thumbs up! Based in Sacramento, USA, VintageDictionary Art cleverly combine the printed word with a range of beautiful imagery using this brilliant method of reproduction.
Are You Going to Scarborough Fair…
I can’t help thinking about that song whenever I start thinking about my little verandah herb garden. Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme…
Light & leaves } terrarium by Kristýna Pojerová
Seems people are getting more and more inventive with terrariums with each passing day… I’ve been so in love with them since discovering the Tending to it range by Britton Neubacher, you might remember those on Cohabitaire a while back. These creations take the love to a whole other level – functional little farms by Czech [...]
Tulip update 2011
I was lucky enough the week before I went overseas to see my tulips flower… just! I only caught them as babies, the timing wasn’t quite right – it was a shame I missed the whole show but glad I got a few snaps of what I did see to share with you guys.
Natureware @ London Designersblock 2011
If I were in London I’d be heading to Designersblock this weekend fo sho! Not going to happen unfortunately, Sydney ain’t that close. For those of us who won’t be there I’ve gathered a handful of interesting nature inspired works that will be showing.
BACSAC: bag/planter = portable garden
Founded in France by two landscapers and a designer, BACSAC aims to make gardening easier, cheaper and more mobile.
The Urban Physic Garden
Welcome to the Urban Physics Garden, a pop up space in Southwark, London, that celebrates medicinal plants in a communal, urban environment. Designed by the clever folk of Wayward Plants, the garden features a wide range of wild, domestic and exotic plants used in the treatment of ills and ailments. With a teaming agenda of talks, activities, [...]
Photo set } violets & yellows
We’ve had flowers galore around our pad this week. With the sunshine returning to Sydney, bright colours are so brilliantly blinding after days of grey. So it’s been perfect to have some blooms prettily sitting about the place. Aren’t the pom pom daisies just smashing?! Husband always seems to find the most interested bunch from [...]
The High Line } New York City
I’ve never been to New York, but I’m fast finding many reasons to go – one being to walk the High Line park with my very own footsies. Have you been there? Running along the lower west side of Manhattan, the dilapidated raised rail line was doomed for destruction in 1999, until a group led by Robert Hammond [...]
Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
We’re so lucky to have a very special guest here on Cohabitaire today: the lovely Lana Kenney who’s blog, lanalou style, I read religiously and highly recommend. Please give Lana a warm welcome as she shares some natural beauty from Cape Town… Today I’d like to share with you one of Cape Town’s highlights and [...]
Vertical garden design } Patrick Blanc
There is perhaps no other man on earth who brings so much plant life to urban spaces than Mr. Vertical Garden himself, Patrick Blanc. A French Botanist who started out as a scientific researcher in the 80′s, Blanc is hailed as the original creator of the vertical garden concept, designing mur végetáles all over the [...]
Tiny garden by Another Studio
If I were clever and invented things I would have invented these. But alas, the guys over at Another Studio are far more clever and inventive having created Matchcarden and it’s slightly larger cousin Postcarden. With a special tiny pop-out box, a handful of cress seeds, a dash of water and ten days up your [...]
Photo set } Wedding orchids
A couple of weeks back on a stormy Saturday, there was a break in the weather timed perfectly for the wedding of two of my dearest friends. Perched on a hill in front of the Opera House flanked by the Harbour Bridge, the happy couple vowed away while the sun sparkled through the trees onto [...]
Comparing early tree & human “life purpose”
When trees are given the opportunity to germinate, they have a surplus of innate pre-coded knowledge to live their entire life but lack physical size. In contrast mammals at the embryonic life stage are knowledge deficient and lack physical size.
Photo set } Snap Dragons
Flicking though my photo files I came across these gorgeously velvety shots I took last October… a mahogany bunch of snap dragons gifted from the husband. Sweet isn’t he?! I don’t know how I forgot about these but it felt like finding a fiver in my jeans pocket. I love it when that happens! Snap Dragons [...]
Garden ramble } what to plant next?
Hey guys, how’s your week been? I don’t know about you but it’s been hectic around here. I’m looking forward to a weekend of long lunches, maybe a yoga class and not forgetting it’s World Environment Day this Sunday, a good time to stop and remember what it is we’re trying to save (not that [...]
PlantLab } Urban farming
This ain’t no underground rave party, unless you consider plants to be raging party animals – no, it’s the future of greenhouse growing, perhaps even the future of modern farming – large scale crops of vertical proportions, built to sustain the needs of growing population. The Plant Lab Plant production unit offers total control over light [...]
Tree life
I’d like to give a very warm welcome and introduce a new contributor to Cohabitaire, our very own tree expert – Chris Broers! I hope you enjoy hearing from Chris from time to time as he gives us an insight into the world of our beautiful tall friends…. hello, Chris! Life from a tree’s perspective? [...]
