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Wallter’s Modern Planters

Wallter, the brand that brought you the beautiful Fold Bedding, wall decor, and modern mobiles has just launched a line of modern planters. The powder-coated spun aluminum planters are available in orange, mustard, white, or teal and come in three styles: Post, Wall, and Hang. The wall planters are ideal for small indoor container gardens, [...]

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Terrarium Nut And Botany Factory On Your Desk

i’m something of a terrarium nut (though i seem to kill all the ones i keep), so i was excited to hear from emily at the new york times about a story she was writing on the “comeback” terrariums were making. in addition to chatting with people like flora grubb, tassy from sprout home, katie [...]

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Glass Flower Pot

Botanists have secrets and we must learn them. Did you know some plants perform better when their roots are directly exposed to sunlight? A common example is the popular orchid. Every time I buy one, it dies within weeks. The Life Pot is a clear glass container that shows subsoil growth. That plant’s roots become [...]

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Beautiful Lighting and Hanging Plant Containers with Rope and Macrame

macramé almost always feels dated to me, but i am really loving these macramé designs from sarah at smalltown in melbourne, australia. working with rope and macramé, sarah creates beautiful lighting and hanging plant containers. the hanging planters with the multiple levels are calling my name, but sarah’s store installation work is equally lovely. click [...]

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Growing Pot

What a fool I was for not posting this yesterday! Now it’s 4/21 and I’m making a joke about marijuana. But in fact, it’s only a play on words. The project you’re about to take a peek at is called “Growing Up”, and in fact it is, truly, a growing pot. It is a pot [...]

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Grow Ye a Sculpture

If there’s one thing I love, it’s sculptures that grow. Grow and grow and grow until they break out of whatever they were in and become a monster that destroys the entire Earth! Oh my goodness watch out world, “Terraform Stulpture” by Robert Cannon is just the kind of sculpture to do such a thing [...]

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