Quadra Medicinale

The full entry of Jef Geys is called Quadra Medicinale. For this new project seeking four acquaintances of Geys, twelve plants in the street near their homes (New York, Moscow, Brussels and Villeurbanne). The result is an inventory of the normal plant. It is a pavilion on instinct, on (how to) survive in the metropolis, an ode to the ordinary. | klararedactie

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Jardin Majorelle

Jardin Majorelle
by MARRAKECHTV

Jacques Majorelle is born in 1886 in Nancy (France). In 1919 he settles in Marrakech to continue his career of painter, where he acquires a ground which was going to become the Majorelle Garden. Since 1947 he opens his garden's doors to the public. Following a car accident, he returns to france, where he dies in 1962. in 1980 Pierre Berg� and Yves Saint Laurent repurchase the garden and restore it.

The High Line

The High Line
Could it possibly retain the tranquillity that made walking along its rusting, decrepit deck such a haunting experience?......


Joel Sternfeld, photographer, whose 2000 series "Walking the High Line" captured the High Line elevated rail structure in four seasons.


Adam Gopnik author of 2001 article A Walk on the High Line



Friends of the High Line: Robert Hammond and Joshua David


Design: James Corner and Piet Oudolf


Archictects: Liz Diller and Ric Scofidio


June 8 2009 the High Line opens

.....It is one of the most thoughtful, sensitively designed public spaces built in New York in years. NYTimes

Tomato Culture

Tomato Culture by Will W. Tracy

Plant Factories

Is this the future of food? Japanese 'plant factory' churn out immaculate vegetables | dailymail

Trad Tools

16 TEETH - Cumbria's last traditional rakemakers by Rii Schroer

Gardeners Get Back to Traditional Tools | treehugger

The Legendary Haws Watering Can

Painted Titanium

Vintage tools from the Museum of Garden History
Cutting and Pruning Tools



Plant Labels