Tokyo DIY Gardening Hands-on gardening for a crowded city
Inspiration
Tsukishima Green Alleys & Construction
Old and new, green alleys and wide boulevards, wood houses and new construction.
Hand Made Tokyo Download
Download the Hand Made Tokyo document of the 3331 Arts CYD Tokyo mapping workshop we did last summer.
Informal Florist
Relaxed, honesty-box style informal florist makes a delightful addition to an afternoon stroll.
Conjunctive Gardening
Pots, blocks, dirt and plants sit, stand on and burrow over and into each other.
Mosquito Repellent Vase in Park Toilet
Another example of the hand made aspects of Japanese mass-made toilets.
School children give pansies to Metro station
How cool that the students are offering the station something alive.
PopcornHomestead Curtain
Prolific and generous Tokyo gardener Joan Bailey is documenting her new and improved green curtain.
[Map Detail] Tokyo DIY Gardening Workshop
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A small sample of detail images from the Tokyo map created during last August’s Tokyo-DIY-Gardening workshop.
Inviting Totoro to Tokyo
“Inviting Totoro to Tokyo disrupts conventional ideas about daily urban life and offers fresh inspiration for cities’ extraordinary possibilities….”
A Field of Pots
A love affair with dirt knows no bounds, rules, and follows a logic of its own. Right on, I say!
Fishing Spot Garden
This example made me realize that I’ve been overlooking a whole species of non-plant-related informal city gardens that still display care for, and attachment to, place.
Joseph Tame’s Gardening: The Birds
Despite living but a few kilometres from Shibuya, in the mornings, with nothing but the sound of birds and the wind in the trees, you can imagine that you’re far from the city, somewhere out in the English countryside.
Joseph Tame’s Gardening
Doing a little gardening brings me a great deal of pleasure, and helps me feel a lot more in touch with the environment within which I live.
Public Seating Rock Garden
Unusable public seating repurposed as rock garden at Mt. Takao, West Tokyo.
Shinjuku Ward Office greening
sidewalk awning with minimal space and maintenance, impacts thousands coming to ward office
[Photo Update] Tokyo DIY Gardening Workshop
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Some photos from the great map which all the participants created.
Rose Bush Takes Over House
The inside must be filled with delicious scent of the roses and feel miles away from the city life just outside the door.
Recent pictures 最近の写真
These recent pictures documenting the progress of Tak Watanabe and daughter’s first green wall are amazing.
Monster Agave Americana
A monster agave americana displays the resilience and majesty of plants in the face of overwhelming concrete.
Vivid Escapee Bougainvillea
The elderly man taking a morning stroll in his pajamas stopped to share his amazement and pleasure at the sight.
Balcony overflows with bougainvillea and other plants
This corner balcony must have 40 or even 100 plants. I wonder what it looks like from inside the apartment.
A Single Manicured Tree
I like the generosity of the owner who shares this tree equally with passers-by and the residence’s inhabitants and guests.
Gorgeous Tree Garden in Sendaji
So many people think that all they can plant are simple flower boxes, when vertical solutions can be so much more lush and interesting….
Pansies in a Sidewalk Crack
In the world’s largest mega-city, even a crack in the sidewalk can be a place to grow a flower.