Green wall light installation

Street artists Luz Interruptus use waste materials and lights to create interesting installations. This one is a green wall of plastic-encased plant cuttings, each one glowing an eerie green. They use everyday materials and install their work in unexpected places.

http://www.luzinterruptus.com/

Growbags

This company is exploring the possibilities for growing in modular bags, creating an extended container garden that can be used to create green roofs as well as on the ground:
http://www.pockethabitat.co.uk/

It's been used here to green a concrete space very effectively.

made from recycled polypropylene, a good take on the growbag idea.

Another idea; Public Farm One, was picked by the MOMA in New York to be constructed in 2008. Whilst it looks more permanent, it is actually built from cardboard tubes. Designed by Work Architecture Company, the green roof of fruit, vegetable and herb plants shelters a farmers market, a kids grotto, benches, swings and a pool, and the supporting columns provide solar energy outlets for charging electronic devices, and inbuilt speakers create different 'sound environments'.

http://www.publicfarm1.org/index.php?/ongoing/about/

Shaping plants.

Growing up in Lincolnshire, one of my favourite places near my parents house was Yew Tree Drive. An avenue of huge old yews clipped into shapes like a set of giant chess pieces along what must have once been the drive to a stately home, but now surrounded by woodland.

Topiary can be used to create magical spaces:

Marqueyssac, France

Other ways of training trees include cloud pruning or Niwaki:

Top to bottom: 

Japanese cloud pruned pine tree 

Niwaki in Parc Floral de la Source, Orleans, France

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Plants can be grafted and trained into weird and wonderful shapes, shown here in the tree sculpting methods pioneered in the '40s by Axel Erlandson at his 'Tree Circus' roadside attraction in California:

Similar techniques have been used here to sculpt a living chair:

www.pooktre.com

Tiny Gardens

How small can a garden be and still be called a garden?

Is this a garden?:

Pete Dungeys pothole gardens

How about these?:

top to bottom:

 Coleen Jordan

Erica Wiener

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Elna and Ei

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An experimental indoor ecosystem in Dalston.

a project to inspire city dwellers to grow their own, using hydroponics and fish farming to create a green and productive indoor space:

http://farmlondon.weebly.com/farmshop.html

Two interesting garden festivals

Two interesting garden festivals:
http://www.refordgardens.com/english/festival/
and
http://www.domaine-chaumont.fr/en_festival_festival?cat=2&expandable=0
both concerned with concepts and creativity in gardening.

Garden graphics: artists and designers using green mediums.

There are a number of artists and designers out there using living green stuff to create their work. From moss graffiti to chlorophyll used to make photographic prints, this is a little round up of plantlife manipulated into art, design and typography. From waterweed used to create numbers, moss typography, photographic images printed on leaves and grass, it's plants used to make pictures and it isn't carpet bedding.

(algae terrarium from the terrain website: http://www.shopterrain.com/)

http://binhdanh.com/

Organic chlorophyll print on jungle foliage by Vietnamese photographer Binh Danh. Images are of dead soldiers, relates to the vietnam war.

Testament by Dan Harvey and Heather Akroyd  http://www.ackroydandharvey.com/

Photographic print on grass.

Moss graffiti by Anna Garforth 

http://www.annagarforth.co.uk/work.html