fall 2010_central park

Highlights from this year's fall colors in Central Park. A little behind on the post, but better late then never!

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Posted on December 12, 2010 by Vivien Chin and filed under places, plants and tagged central park fall leaves plants sheep's meadow.

creeping colors

Loving the way the greens, oranges, and reds are climbing up the facade. Whimsical...

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Posted on December 12, 2010 by Vivien Chin and filed under art & architecture, places, plants and tagged architecture plants upper west side.

urban farming: mini corn field

Urban farming at it's best! Someone in the UWS is utilizing those sidewalk planters for something more than just flowers. Best idea ever to plant some corn out there. Corn on the cob sounds delish right now!

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Posted on August 22, 2010 by Vivien Chin and filed under plants and tagged corn plants urban farming vegetables.

the sugar lump crop

Picked the first batch from the sugar lump tomato "crop". Urban farming is delicious, sweet and tasty.

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Posted on July 6, 2010 by Vivien Chin and filed under plants, restaurants & food and tagged food tomatoes urban farming.

my sugar lumps_tomatoes!

They're finally turning red!!! Purchased a small tomato plant seedling from the Union Square Farmers' Market probably a month ago. It was of the "sugar lump" or "Gardener's Delight" (looked it up online...haha) variety. They are little baby tomatoes/cherry tomatoes. The plant was less than a foot tall when I bought it and now it's 3-4 ft tall. Insane! After watching the blossoms turn to tiny pea sized tomatoes, it seemed like it was going to take forever for them to turn red, but finally they are getting ripe. Looking forward to adding them to my salads. Definitely really rewarding to grow your own food to eat. Have a bell pepper plant starting to grow. Hope that works out too

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Posted on June 24, 2010 by Vivien Chin and filed under plants, restaurants & food and tagged food gardening plants tomatoes.

happy st. patty's day!!

Where's my pot o' gold? lol.

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Posted on March 17, 2010 by Vivien Chin and filed under etc-, plants, pop culture and tagged 4 leaf clover holiday shamrock.

medical herbman cafe project_EARTHSCAPE

Giant traveling human-shaped herb garden designed by Japanese Landscape design studio, EARTHSCAPE.

The garden arrives in shipping containers which converts into a shop and cafe.

The herbs that are planted within the body's outline are either herbs that benefit that part of the body or are herbs native to that particular local. The money earned is donated to building playgrounds in developing countries.

3 different locations in Japan have been visited by the herbman and more will come in the future.

Really great idea and great cause.

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Posted on February 3, 2010 by Vivien Chin and filed under art & architecture, cool design stuff, etc-, plants and tagged cool design stuff design earthscape herb herbman japan landscape landscape art plants.

fig_home decorating

Fig is enjoying is new plants he got for christmas to spruce up his home. haha...This is the prize he gets for surviving 9 days alone while I was gone on vacation. The invincible fish...

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Posted on January 16, 2010 by Vivien Chin and filed under etc-, plants and tagged goldfish plant.

growing jewelery_hafsteinn juliusson

I can now water my jewelery! I love rings and thought this was a really cute idea. Designer, Hafsteinn Juliusson, has made a line of jewelery called "Growing Jewelery" that incorporates growing moss in a silver ring setting. They are limited edition and supposedly the moss can last up to 12 weeks if cared for properly. Jewelery + Gardening! Mist, mist. mist! Fun and quirky idea. :)

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Posted on November 19, 2009 by Vivien Chin and filed under cool design stuff, fashion, plants and tagged cool design stuff fashion gardening growing jewelery jewelry plant ring.

today's desk view: flowers

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Posted on October 14, 2009 by Vivien Chin and filed under desk views, etc-, plants and tagged flowers plant.

this week's desk view: flowers & sunsets

pretty colors.....

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Posted on October 3, 2009 by Vivien Chin and filed under desk views, places, plants and tagged flowers plant sunset union square.

basil_wk 1

Planted some FREE basil seeds that were being given out at the Union Square Farmer's Market. Here they are at the end of week 1 (above). Lots of sprouts. Only the strongest sprouts will survive...which ones will they be?

basil_glass jar Next to the new sprouts is the basil plant I started from a seedling I got from the Farmer's Market too. Give them something to aspire too :)

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Posted on September 28, 2009 by Vivien Chin and filed under plants and tagged basil gardening plant seedling seeds.

green thumb

Wanted to try growing some plants on the perch of the apartment. So started by getting some garlic chives (top) and rosemary (bottom) seedlings and planting them. Got some free basil seed packets that were being handed out at the Farmer's Market in Union Square this week. Planted them today. Can't wait for them to grow.

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Posted on September 19, 2009 by Vivien Chin and filed under plants and tagged gardening garlic chives rosemary.

biodegradable moss carpet

Japan-based flower artist Makoto Azuma collaborated with Unitika Ltd. to create an indoor glade at the 2009 Milan Furniture Fair that is a completely biodegradable system. The planter portion of this moss carpet system is made from plant-derived polylactic acid fiber that decomposes in 10 years leaving only CO2 and water that will be absorbed by plants in the end. Very cool and very earth conscious. Original article from Inhabitat.