Garden Types
Caring for Your Plants
Practical and economical reuse of materials for caring for your plants from the rigors of city life.
Community Gardening
Gardens for and by communities.
Curbside
Gardens at the edge.
Dead Space
Overcoming active suppression – Green uses of dead space.
Decoration
Beautifying urban spaces through plants.
Edible
Hidden feasts in a dense city.
Independent Plants
No matter how much we pave over nature or confine it to a pot, plants are resilient, resourceful and able to confound our built environment.
Inspiration
Beautiful, wonderous, magical – sources of inspiration for DIY urban gardeners.
Other Uses for Gardens
Urban gardens moonlighting in unusual and useful situations.
Parks
Investigating Tokyo’s inner city parks.
Play
FUN!
Tools of the Trade
Key items in the urban gardener’s arsenal.
Trees
Larger scale members of Tokyo’s urban gardens.
Vertical Gardens
Hanging, climbing, dangling…….
Walks
Documenting walking tours of Tokyo’s often overlooked and underappreciated spaces.
Water Gardens
Fresh and crisp water gardens supporting invited life and gatecrashers.