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Maximizing floral impact
This small house on a typical Nakano side street is over-flowing with plant life. The owner is clearly maximizing space with hundreds of potted plants on the top, the inside and the outside of the...
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Brooklyn Sidewalk Garden
Wonderful article about Kirstin Tobiasson creating a sidewalk garden by digging up the concrete and growing through trial and error. I like how she calls this spot “my country house” and enjoys the...
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Fantasy landscape with fountain, palm, and odd characters
A miniature fantasy landscape freely shared on a Tokyo curbside. ミニチュアのファンタジー風景が舗道 の縁石を占領している。 This tiny curbside garden is a fantasy landscape in miniature in what was probably dead space previously...
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Why are there so few old trees in Tokyo?
どうして東京は木がないところが多いのでしょう？特に、都市キャノピーを作れる成熟した木がたくさんありません。新しい工事は、古いランドスケープを取り除いてしまいます。渋谷区は、どれだけ木があるかを確認して、住民に知らせて、木の価値について説明して、保護しようとしています。 Many parts of Tokyo seem perversely devoid of tree canopy. That’s...
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Tanuki offers giant shade structure to passers-by outside Shibaura House
.@shibaurahouse の「友達を作ろう」のワークショップの参加者とタヌキさんは、歩道の日陰を提供するために、身体を変えました。 With help from Shibaura House’s Making Friends participants, tanuki transforms his body into a giant shade structure.
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Sunflower blooms next to the road, outside the gardener’s property
このコーナーは家と歩道の境目にありますが、近所の方のおかげでいつもきれいな花が咲いています。 This sunflower is blooming in a tiny mound of dirt outside a neighbor’s house. I love how she maintains this corner and always offers some seasonal color...
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