Caring for your Plants

Unique reuse of traditional materials.
Mar 14, 2013 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Decoration, Inspiration

Chopstick support.
Mar 13, 2013 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Edible

This well tended local neighbourhood park garden is actually a quiet memorial to a deceased spouse.
Mar 13, 2013 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Community Gardening, Other Uses for Gardens

Inventive and strongly practical use/reuse of a familiar and cheap mass-produced item.
Feb 28, 2013 | Category: Caring for your Plants

Decorative charm and creative practical application.
Feb 03, 2013 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Community Gardening, Decoration, Inspiration, Tools of the Trade

Rainy ramble in far west Tokyo suburbs
Oct 09, 2012 | Category: Articles/Downloads, Caring for your Plants, Curbside, Dead Space, Inspiration, Walks

Biophilic encounter on commuter train
Oct 04, 2012 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Inspiration

Early 2003 example from Nagoya
Oct 02, 2012 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Decoration, Tools of the Trade

Notes from memory-infused morning glories
Oct 02, 2012 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Decoration

Plastic twine = essential Tokyo gardening material.
May 20, 2012 | Category: Caring for your Plants

The essence of Tokyo DIY gardening.
Jan 10, 2012 | Category: Caring for your Plants

Recycled and simple materials, like plastic sacks as container pots
Aug 22, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Edible, Inspiration, Roof Gardens

Plants can play many roles in neighbourhood life.
Aug 17, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Community Gardening, Other Uses for Gardens, Parks

Although the trees are long dead, the wall reminds us of a garden once treasured.
Aug 17, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Trees

Space efficient roadside planter fix.
Jul 08, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Curbside, Inspiration

Wire twisted into pot plant holders to decorate roadside residential fencing.
May 16, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Hanging Gardens

“No Pooing! No Peeing!” reads this scrawled message on a broken board.
May 09, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants

Mature trees support their still-potted adolescent friend.
Apr 20, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Curbside, Trees

TeruTeruBozu type crow scarecrow construction in rubbish bags.
Apr 01, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Edible

“It’s not perfect, but it’s better than nothing in this heat.”
Feb 22, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Tools of the Trade

High-priced residence, luxury car, beautiful flower, and humble maintenence method.
Jan 10, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Community Gardening, Decoration

More tree gathering.
Jan 10, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Curbside, Trees

“Protected from would-be snatchers but all can enjoy”
Jan 10, 2011 | Category: Caring for your Plants

Public planter asks passers-by for a bit of water.
Dec 26, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Community Gardening

Aesthetically pleasing and responsible.
Dec 26, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Curbside, Decoration, Trees

Respect, privacy, decoration.
Dec 26, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Curbside

A row of tomato vines protected from the harsh Tokyo summer with a whole lot of umbrellas.
Oct 03, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Edible

A mix of respect for plant life and hassle involved with disposing of plant cuttings?
Sep 30, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Independent Plants

A strongly practical, domestic garden safety solution.
Sep 27, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Tools of the Trade

Simple and effective hothouse solution in plastic.
Sep 26, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Tools of the Trade

Visibility and dryness = Keys to good garden storage
Sep 20, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants

A simple, reversible and light-handed approach to guiding garden growth.
Sep 15, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants

“Cleaning goya seeds is a pain….so let the ants take care of them!”
Aug 15, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Edible

Frayed rope for security or stabilization?
Aug 09, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Curbside, Trees

What is the function of this construction? Security? Stabilization?
Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Caring for your Plants, Trees