19 New Ways to Mow Your Lawn and Garden in Style

From pink gardening tools to the world’s fastest lawnmower, this list will provide you with more than a dozen new ideas for your lawn and garden.  Don’t have a yard?  No problem, we’ve also got an array of urban gardening trends from living walls to vertical gardens.

Urban Gardening

Urban Gardens - Living Wall Planters (GALLERY)

Imagine wall art that was eco-friendly, added Mother Nature to your living room and was a constantly changing spectacle, and you will come close to envisioning something like the creative Living Wall Planters.  At $169, they are relatively good priced, especially since they are coupled with the ent… [More]

Green Walls - Vertical Gardens

Why go outside when you can enjoy your lawn in the comfort of your own home.  Invented by Indoor Landscaping, Permanent green walls are vertical gardens that can be individually designed to suit your taste.  The innovative concept also provides you with automatic air conditioning, air cleaning, a so… [More]

Green Roof Tiles

Why not green up your roof with a new tile system that makes it easy?  Toyota Roof Gardens has created a new green roof tile, measuring 20 inches square, which lets you easily add grass to your roof.  The best part is that the tiles are self watering, so there’s little maintenance.  Bonus: at 2 inch… [More]

Rent a Garden

Rent-a-Garden is a Dutch company that will give you a quick fix of green to makeover your terrace or yard.  You can rent sculptures, potted plants, or a whole theme.  Typical rentals last for 3 months, just enough for the gardening season (well… okay, maybe 3 months is gardening season here in Can… [More]

Desktop Garden - USB Powered Greenhouse (GALLERY)

I love gardening, but it’s tough to get around to when you’re stuck at your PC under fluorescent lights all day. This USB Powered Mini Greenhouse may provide a small reprieve from the artificial mind numbing grind. God’s one millionth of an acre sitting on your desktop to nurture, reap what yo… [More]

Lawn Chairs 2.0

Real Lawnchair

This eco friendly lawnchair incorporates sod into its steel and rubber design.  It includes a watering system to distribute moisture efficiently.  The design was made by f+bp architects in LA. [More]

Living Furniture - Bushy Bench by 5.5 Designers

If making your grass furniture out of scratch is too much effort (and mess) for you, then this fresh bench by 5.5 Designers collective is a good alternative. The bench comes with built-in compartments for you to easily grow your favorite plants in the armrests and backrest areas.  The result is a … [More]

Earth Furniture - Lawn Chair + Lawn Couch (GALLERY)

How much oxygen did your furniture produce today? Yeah, this is not your typical piece of furniture. Add some alive furniture to your lawn or garden with these neat looking environmental chair and couch.  Simply fill the frame with soil, spread grass seeds evenly over the dirt, press them in and w… [More]

Fashionable Gardening

Pink Garden Kit

The blushing garden kit totes gardening twine, plant labels, two pairs of gloves (one heavy suede, one cotton) and a dibber. Dig deeper and you’ll find a trug, a kneeling mat, pruning shears and a stainless steel fork and trowel.  But the best bit about the garden kit is that comes complete with pin… [More]

Fashionista Gardening Tools - Stay Glamourous While Digging Dirt

You love your garden? You love your style? Combine the two! Summer’s here and its time to go out and do some digging! These lovely gardening tools were made by Wild and Wolf for the V&A;museum shop, with the original William Morris patterns from the 19th century. Now that we have these, we only have… [More]

When Gardens Become Architecture

Organic Architecture - Orquideorama Gardens (GALLERY)

In Medellin, Columbia, a couple of architects needed to renovate their garden. It’s not just any garden, it’s called the Orquideorama. What seems to be wicker is actually steel to support self sustaining gardens.  “Architects Felipe Mesa and Alexander Bernal wanted the Orquideorama to grow in the s… [More]

Mile-High Eco-Tower - 500 Floor London Building (GALLERY)

Here is another plan for a super-high skyscraper, this time in Europe’s very own London.  The eco-friendly building, which will be 500 stories high, could house 100,000 non-height-fearing people as well as, schools, hospitals, and stores. The unique aspect to this design, which will be situated in … [More]

Lawn Mowing For Rednecks

The World’s Fastest Lawnmower - 990cc and 15mph

The Dixie Chopper Xtreme is the world’s fastest lawnmower. It has a 990cc 33-hp engine with the capability to mow grass at 15mph. Given it can take either a 60 or 72 inch cut, that’s a lawnmower capable of mowing a football field in under ten minutes or turn 8.7 acres of grass into lawn every ho… [More]

F1-Style Lawn Mower - Cut and Cruise (GALLERY)

Kadeg Boucher designed this race car-inspired grass cutting machine. Only a concept at this point, the French designer’s work can be seen in high resolution at CG Society. The steering wheel has an LCD gauge display (of what, I’m not sure; gas levels, the amount of time spent mowing, tire pressure?)… [More]

Bikini Lawn Service - A New Way to Create Controversy (VIDEO)

You seen it before in other business ventures from bikini car washes to women advertising for beer.  Now, Tiger time lawn care is a lawn care business that has women cutting lawns wearing bikinis.  The price: $65 - $85. The best part of the video is that the company’s founder offers the anchorwoman… [More]

Lawn Mowing For The Eco Aware

Eco Mowing Gets Hip - The AL-KO 30 Manual Mowing Machine (VIDEO)

The Al-KO 30 is manufactured in China and comes in shiny yellow. This product has been reinvented since 1960’s however over time the design has not needed to be improved. Additionally it is environmentally friendly, great exercise and goes on and on. The video below shows the lawnmower in action. Do… [More]

Eco Lawnmower - Remington PowerMower

Old style electric lawn mowers just didn’t cut it - literally. No more. The revolutionary Remington PowerMower, uses a brand new technology to keep the power flowing from motor to blade. The power rivals that of a gas powered engine. Even mowing the “two-week-vacation” grass isn’t a problem anymore.… [More]

Lawn Mowing for the Lazy

The Robot Lawnmower - Husqvarna Automower

Lazy?  Get a robot to mow your lawn.  Keep your cat inside. The Automower is very simple to operate. You continuously get a good result without any effort from you as a consumer. Once you have installed the Automower, it independently ensures that your lawn is well cut, without any involvement from… [More]

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Dealing With Drought - Painting Lawns Green (GALLERY)

If you can’t handle a dead yard in winter, or in the heat of summer, consider painting it to fake a lush lawn! With the awful drought plaguing Atlanta and surrounding states, residents are finding it hard to cope with water shortage, and that includes dealing with the aesthetic demise of their lawn… [More]