Top 63 Gardening Trends - Blossoming Innovations (SUPER GALLERY)

Are flowers the first thing you think of for Mothers Day? Most women love flowers, be it a stunning floral arrangement for the table or an entire garden full of gorgeous blossoms. Flowers make great gifts, but if you could customize them with a personal message or logo, wouldn’t that be even greater? Shown in the featured image is a printer specially made for printing designs ON flowers. The 1,250 Flower Printer is made by CompactImpact.

In honour of my own mother who, like many modern women, doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty to create a beautiful outdoor sanctuary, I’ve created this Super Gallery of the top flower and garden-related trends.

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 … [More]

Vertical Farming (Part III) - Toronto Sky Farm (GALLERY)

There are several vertical farms proposed from major cities around the world. We’ve already told you about the one being built in Las Vegas, now here’s one that’s been proposed for Toronto. SKYFarm, is being developed by architect Gordon Graff. It will be a 58 floor skyscraper that will blend into… [More]

Gardens & Real Plants

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]

Caravan Garden - Bring the Country With You

Unfold your own green space anywhere you like with the Caravan Garden - a portable garden that you can hook up to the back of your car. “Living in a giant city, I often really miss sitting amongst flowers and bushes and greenery. Living in a concrete jungle can get to you sometimes, and it would… [More]

Pocket Garden Perfect for this Valentine’s Day

This Valentine’s Day, give a plant in a package.  It will last longer than cut flowers! [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]

Growing Fresh Veggies In Space - AeroGrow On NASA Shuttle (VIDEO)

Now astronauts don’t have to rely on nasty freeze-dried foods when they’re launched into space. AeroGrow technologies has teamed with NASA to bring fresh greens to those aboard the Endeavour shuttle. The Endeavour took off yesterday stocked with Seed Pod technology according to CNNMoney. “This exp… [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]

Flowers for the Fingers

Designed with the fun, colour and passion that life offers in mind, omondieu!’s saucy line of floral jewelry has been making waves with the style set since its inception in 2004. Worn by such celebrities as Lenny Kravitz, Nicole Ritchie, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View, omondieu! has generate… [More]

Topsu Turvy: Hanging Garden from Felknor Ventures

”Thanks to a whole new direction in growing tomatoes, your crop will be bigger, better tasting, healthier, and easier to grow than ever before. You can water, feed, trim and harvest without bending or kneeling—and since your crop is upside down and will never touch the ground, staking, caging, bac… [More]

Genetically Modified Flowers - Blue Roses

Roses are red, roses are blue,sSend her both, she’ll love you. Blue roses have been sought after for a long, long time. A Japanese company has finally been successful in creating blue roses. The company who found the winning formula, Suntory, is also a major whisky distiller. It’s only logical tha… [More]

Rainbow Roses - Amazing “Happy Flowers” (GALLERY)

What a gorgeous idea! Peter van de Werken of River Flowers, a Netherlands Company, has perfected a unique technique for changing each petal of a single rose (my favourite flower) to a different colour. Colours can be strongly contrasting (you may need sunglasses to look) or in subtle shades. They ar… [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]

Flower Pots, Planters & Vases

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]

Transformer Plants - From Vase to Flower to Vase Again (VIDEO)

This vase not only adds a unique splash of design and greenery to your home, but it has beautiful symbolism. It begins as a brown vase, then as you nurture it, it blooms into a plant. After the leaves wilt, it returns back to its vase state. Watch the video to see a time lapse of the living vase.
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Biodegradable Flower Pots - Graine De Pot

Designer François Clerc has designed the Graine De Pot, a special biodegradable pot for city dweller gardeners. The pot is made from a biodegradable plastic container that expands. The container has a lifespan of approximately nine months. You’ll want to plant the seeds this season so your full… [More]

Flat Pack Garden Pot - Electricwig Design (GALLERY)

Founded by Tim Denton and Johanna Van Daalen in 2001, Electricwig has a reputation for creating furniture, objects and installations with a stylish sense of humour.  The 123 Garden aims to help people make the most out of a small urban outdoor space, with a flat pack solution for greening any narrow… [More]

Army-Inspired Decor - Tank U Vases

Flowers are generally considered a pretty, gentle item to bring into the home. They’re usually displayed in delicate vases which is why these army tank-inspired flower holders are extremely bizarre. The Tank U vases were created by Parisian design group, La Tete Au Cube and come in White and Platin… [More]

Gun Vase

Quite rightly hear the words guns & roses together and you will think of the band and bad haircuts (much the same thing).  But no, no, no, there is now a new route to paradise city. Guns & flowers is what those in the know are talking about right now… Wall mounted gun vases, three gun combinatio… [More]

Flowers Merged with Design - Frederic Ruyant Vases (GALLERY)

In case you haven’t noticed, designers are different. They see things differently. Ordinary things like vases become a challenge to provide more than just a container for greenery or flowers. French designer Frederic Ruyant designed these “bloody urban green” vases from ceramic which allows the gree… [More]

Design Pumps Life Into Flowers - Heart Vase by Esque Design

Where else can flowers fit perfectly into, but in an anatomically-correct heart? This organ-inspired vase was created by Esque Design. The two-toned technical design of the vase seems to pump new life to your expensive flowers. The heart vase is of the 200 numbered and signed vases by Esque Desig… [More]

Bikini Vase for Your Flowers

Give your flowers a stylish vase with the Bikini Vase made by Pampanel for PA Design. The vase hides a clear plastic insert in the center that gives your flowers the illusion they are wearing a two-piece. Very cheeky and oh so stylish. [More]

Vase In A Card

The best card to go with a bouquet of flowers is the vase card. Inside the blank card is a flat, thin piece of plastic that turns into a vase and becomes malleable once you run it under hot water. It can be transformed into any shape and stabilized once you run it under cold water. The vase card can… [More]

Design in Motion - Fast Vase

The eye-popping design of the Fast Vase collection by Rosenthal is a reflection of the fast-paced, hectic speed of our life. According to dotmaison, “The backwards-angled offshoots from the vase itself reflect the artist rendition of speed.” The collection includes four vase designs: Mini 13cm, S… [More]

Crystal Cross Overs - Randomly Crystallised Swarovski (GALLERY)

Swedish designers Front created Randomly Crystallised which is a collection of vases and lights for the Swarovski Crystal Palace, a high-end crystal and glass store. The pieces were made by combining cut crystals with hard blown liquid crystal. “Front has experimented with crystal as a material,… [More]

Candy Foil Vases - Chocolate Changing Vase (VIDEO)

Buying a beautiful vase can make a fantastic statement in your living room, but from time to time, you want a change. Inspired by the unwrapping of chocolate candy foils, like that on a Lindt bunny or Hershey’s Kiss, Front Design created the Chocolate Changing Vase. The vase is wrapped in five bea… [More]

Ultra Light Environmental Vase - Façade Vase (GALLERY)

The Façade Vase from Orcadesign is a creative wool felt slip-on cover that turns any standard plastic (or non-plastic) bottle into a minimalist eco-friendly vase. I like the concept, it provides a cool unbreakable vase for clumsy people like myself that is very easy to trasport. You can easily have… [More]

DIY Condom Decor - Naughty DeFlower Vase (GALLERY)

Artist Alexander Reh has a simple cheap DIY recipe for bringing beauty, scent and color into your interior. To make the Naughty DeFlower Vase, take a couple of juice glasses and colored condoms, unroll them over the glasses, cut away the tip, stick the flower in and voila! Only the dirty minds amo… [More]

Chalkboard Vases - Too Cool For School

Whether you want a gift to kiss up to the teacher this fall or you’re just looking for a neat new conversation piece, check out (or should I say chalk out) the Chalkboard Vase by Urban Materials and Accessories. Not everyone needs leaded crystal or frilly details. The Chalkboard Vase allows you to c… [More]

Edible Flowers

Blossoming Tea (GALLERY)

Blossoming Tea is made of the finest young camellia leaves, wrapped together with perfectly formed young flowers by skilled “tea artists”. These creations are then dried to form a ball shape. When water is poured over, it unfurls to form a visually beautiful flowering arrangement in your teapot. You… [More]

Edible Flower Art - Wild Hibiscus In Syrup (VIDEO)

For that extra-special occasion when you really want to crank up the wow-factor, you can impress your guests when you serve an ultra-exotic glass of champagne. Here’s the best part - it won’t cost a fortune. The wild hibiscus flowers in syrup are a beautiful addition to a glass of bubbly, and will b… [More]

Unique & Offbeat

Flower Simulators - Instant Blossom from a Card

The Instant Blossom was designed by Ki-Seung Lee to simulate a real flower vase. A perfect gift for those who don’t have fingers that are green, these blooms do not require a lot of maintenance. All it takes is to snap the greeting size card into half and give the hydroponic flowers a spray of water… [More]

Mood Plants - The Flower Nurse (GALLERY)

Designed by QianJun Gao, the Flower Nurse is an artificial potted plant where the flowers “express” their needs by changing color. In addition, when they’re feeling neglected, the leaves droop, just as a real plant’s would when it hasn’t been watered or has been kept out of the sun. I am all for c… [More]

Tokyo Micro Garden Phone Charm - Nature in a Bottle

The Tokyo Micro garden cellphone straps could be the ultimate cellphone strap ever. It contains a “nutrient-rich gel” which makes the plant grow over time. [More]

Garden On Your Desktop - The Sensory Lamp Concept

Are you sitting in front of the computer all day? You forgot how fresh air, nature and sunlight feels? If this is the case, close the browser, switch off the computer, and go out for a walk while the sun is out. If you can’t do that, we advise you to get the Sensory lamp, designed by Sara Rossbach… [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]

Green Inside and Out Lights - Grass-on Lamp (GALLERY)

The Grass-on lamp is green both outside and inside. The unique light brings the outdoors inside your home with its synthetic grass look. And to go along with the green theme, the whole lamp is made from recycled materials and is completely recyclable. Grass-on was designed by three Venetian archite… [More]

Letter Grows Into Flowers - Honda’s Green Marketing

Honda, in an attempt to show that it can go green, sent customers of its lawn and garden equipment, a letter that literally grows. Printed on a special paper that contains seeds, the text invites the readers to plant the letter(once they have read it I suppose), to help neutralize the carbon in the … [More]

Edible Runways - Etro’s Farm Fresh Fashion (VIDEO)

We’ve featured green walls, inside and out, even green roofs, green dog houses and living interior designs. Etro, always on the cutting edge of style, realized the popularity of covering surfaces in live vegetation and produced an edible runway at the Fall 2008 men’s show. The catwalk was decorate… [More]

Fake Soil Saves Planet - Japanese Plastic Dirt ‘Pafcal’

Leave it to the Japanese to save the planet by covering concrete buildings in fake plastic. In an effort to help keep Tokyo and other cities green and ease the so-called “heat-island” problem of rising temperatures in crowded metropolitans, Japanese brewer Suntory Ltd. has created an alternative to … [More]

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]

Vegetable Orchestra - Music From Vegetable Instruments or Modern Art? (VIDEO)

Fresh vegetables are good for you. They are also pretty to look at. But did you know you can also listen to them?  The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra describes their music, “ The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violin… [More]

Boffins Develop Flowering Mobile Phone

Researchers at Warwick University have developed a biodegradable mobile phone case containing a seed that flowers when planted. The case is made of a new type of polymer that when buried will start to break down within two weeks. A seed is implanted in the case that germinates when the case degrade… [More]

Garden Furniture & Design

Backyard Getaway Globe - Ornate Garden Rotating Lounger

The Ornate Garden Rotating Lounger is the perfect seclusion getaway. Just steps away from your home, you could find peace and tranquility surrounded by the fragrant flowers in your own beautiful garden. Since the globe rotates, your can change your view as often as you like, perhaps rotating with … [More]

Luxury Living Outside - Lucious Mazuvo Balu Outdoor Bed (GALLERY)

CSI Miami fans that drool everytime a poolside cabana is shown, can now do one better. A poolside bed.  Mazuvo buit this weatherproof bed called the Balu garden bed. Honey colored wicker with washable pillows will be a comfy place to snooze away the afternoon in luxury and style. When not in use, th… [More]

Expensive Yard-Art For Stargazing - Porter Garden Telescope

You’re wealthy. You like to look at neighboring galaxies. You could build one of those unsightly dome-shaped observatories, or you could buy one of these. The Porter Garden Telescope from Telescopes of Vermont is a model developed by astronomer, Russell W. Porte. The contraption is a working, bronze… [More]

Tools & Accessories

Fashionista Gardening Tools - Stay Glamourous While Digging Dirt

(TREND HUNTER) 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]

Designer Diggers 2 - Christian LaCroix Garden Set (GALLERY)

(TREND HUNTER) How can you not dig this patterned garden spade? It was designed by French fashion designer, Christian LaCroix and it is oh-so-chic. He designed the Rempoton trowel for La Redoute, part of a set that sells for $54. Some other pieces from the La Redoute gardening line can be seen in the gallery, in… [More]

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]

Clean Air Gardening - Oxygenating Watering Can

Growing a garden free of pesticides and chemical laden fertilizers can be tough, but this oxygenating watering can from Hammacher Schlemmer may just be the trick to getting plants to grow hearty and robust without toxins. When you plug it in, it enriches regular tap water with oxygen. Simply fill … [More]

Coffee for Your Garden - Starbucks Pushes Coffee for Your Plants

It’s no longer just your tastebuds that can enjoy the Starbucks experience; now your garden can take part in its enriching experience.  Starbucks developed “Grounds For Your Garden”, a program that reuses coffee grounds for composting. The famous coffee company offers complimentary bags of coffee … [More]

Weed Burner - Kick Some Ass When You Garden!

If Arnold was a gardener, he’d garden with the Weed Burner.  It’s a $35 device that combines two things you love: killing weeds and fire.  How you ask?  With a propane torch.  “Eliminate weeds quickly and permanently with a propane-fired weed burner. Use this lightweight burner to clear weeds and th… [More]

Outdoor Lights

LED Bamboo Lights - Sevcan Yardim’s Sustainable Outdoor Lighting

Developed by Sevcan Yardim, a recent graduate from the METU (Middle East Technical University) in Ankara, these new lights incorporate LEDs inside bamboo for a quite startling night-time effect.  She developed the concept as a result of her research into parks and gardens, with the intent of develop… [More]

Color Changing Eco Light - Solar Butterfly Light

The perfect way to set the mood of your next garden party is with the color changing solar LED butterfly light! The glowing insect charges in the sun all day via a small solar panel, automatically switching on its internal LED lights at night. It’s constantly changing colors will dazzle you as the … [More]

Floating Glow Orbs - Moonlight Globes Light Up Gardens, Nightclubs, Resorts

Moonlight Globes float in your pool or lake and produce a beautiful but eerie glow. They are rumored to have a new product with a cool 360 degree speaker for stereo sound at hot night clubs and resorts. Famous in Europe, Moonlight Globes are becoming popular in warm climate regions like Florida an… [More]

Eco-Friendly Solar Plant - Power Your Backyard Party (GALLERY)

The solar plant by Takanori Hayakawa will light up your garden or backyard party without using any electricity at all. Totally solar-powered, this little “plant” sits out in the sun all day charging-up. Once it’s dark it gives-off an LCD type neon glow that is sensational and eco-friendly too. [More]

Modern Solar Outdoor Light - Magic Globe Solar Light Sphere

It floats. It sits in the garden on a stake - or on your table. It cycles through a spectrum of colors. The Magic Globe Solar Light Sphere illuminates automatically, and stays bright for up to 12 hours thanks to a hidden solar module in the sphere. And it looks good… [More]

Inspired by Flowers

Scented Earrings - Bloom (GALLERY)

These vibrant earrings don’t just look like flowers, they’re packed with a beautiful fragrance too! In fact, you can customize how each Bloom smells! The disposable Blooms are designed to act as scent pads to carry your favourite perfume. Whereas sweating and natural oil production make your fragra… [More]

Tentacle Jewelry - Gualti Earrings Inspired by Plant Roots

Inspired by various forms of vegetation, Italian designer Gualti dreamed up these surrealist, organic-symbolic extensions of the human body in the form of jewels. The extravagant earrings are designed to resemble certain flowers and the roots of plants rising up from deep within. “I have always be… [More]

Endangered Flower Fashion - Blooming Cyclamen at Diana Bobar (GALLERY)

Trendinista follows her excellent fish-inspired fashion post with a superb study of Diana Bobar’s Spring’08 ready-to-wear collection. This time, inspiration seems to come from the endangered Wild Cyclamen, a tubular Mediterranean flower with breezy, spiral petals. Trendinista explains that the g… [More]

Giant Blooming Shoulders - Sex & the City Movie Already an Influence (VIDEO)

The Sex and the City movie isn’t even out yet, and already it’s influencing fashion. Remember Carrie’s flower brooch? It’s back, big time. After Sarah Jessica Parker’s character wore it on TV, faux flowers were appearing pinned out clothes, accessories, on shoes and in hair. Photos captured on t… [More]

Designer Urinals - Art Appreciation in the Men’s Room

There are not many things in our modern society that a man can honestly claim to be for ‘men only’. But for what it’s worth, urinals are one of them; up to now this toilet fixture has been boringly functional and an atypically ugly. That was until Clark Sorensen who grew up in Salt Lake City… [More]