Urban gardens: 4 unexpected ways to grow in the city

    Gardening as a lifestyle: a healthy hobby that helps us to live better, respecting the planet and that could even discover our most delicate soul. It doesn't matter if we grow a large garden or a few pots on the balcony, the important thing is to do it with passion and constancy and the results will not be long in coming. But there is someone who is not satisfied with simple compromises and to have a green space to cultivate is ready to dare by taking root in unusual places and guerrilla gardening teaches. But here are four truly unusual urban gardens:



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    Il gardening as a way of life: a healthy hobby that helps us to live better, respecting the planet and that could even discover our most delicate soul. It doesn't matter if we grow a large garden or a few pots on the balcony, the important thing is to do it with passion and constancy and the results will not be long in coming.



    But there is someone who is not satisfied with simple compromises and to have a green space to cultivate is ready to dare taking root in unusual places and guerrilla gardening teaches. But here are four truly unusual urban gardens:

    1. Grow in crevices

    Urban gardens: 4 unexpected ways to grow in the city

    The color that predominates in big cities is now more than ever gray, that of concrete that devours everything, stealing precious space from the green of nature. From this observation, the courageous project of the CMG Landscape Architecture that he wants comes to life create artificial cracks in the city concrete where to grow plants and flowers.

    The idea comes from the simple observation of nature which often shows us as from one crack of the ground may life be reborn.

    Urban gardens: 4 unexpected ways to grow in the city

    Instead of waiting for the concrete to naturally deteriorate and crack, the idea is to deliberately create slits by means of pneumatic hammers, arranged in neat rows, capable of changing the gray urban landscape. In a short time the cracks in the ground will be reoccupied by mother nature which will make you grow a multitude of life.

    The project of the CMG Landscape Architecture won the prestigious American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for its ingenuity and originality. In addition to being nice to see, this new way to green cities also has an excellent cost / benefit ratio.

    2. The garden in the bin

    Urban gardens: 4 unexpected ways to grow in the city

    One thing that is certainly not lacking in large cities are the waste collection bins, which are produced every day in monstrous quantities.



    But many landscape architects, artists and creative souls scattered around the world have glimpsed a great potential in them: that of beautify and add life to the urban landscape.

    And here some bins have magically transformed into small happy oases, full of life and colors. The architect Ken smith has installed three gardens / dumpster atOhio State University, each of which with a different type of cultivation.
    Many British volunteers instead have installed some near the station King's cross in London. Questthe unique gardens are easily transportable and therefore can be moved as needed.

    3. Grow on the truck

    Urban gardens: 4 unexpected ways to grow in the city

    An even more mobile project, compared to the gardens / dumpster, is certainly that of Farm Truck conceived by Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney.

    The concept behind this sensational idea is as simple as it is unusual: to build a small mobile farm in the back of a pickup truck. A crop of rocket, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and more thriving in a 1986 Dodge Ram pickup truck. At the end of the season with the crop grown in this small moving space they fed around 20 people. The project has shown how it is possible to cultivate even in unexpected spaces, still obtaining excellent results:


    4. The garden in the crater

    Urban gardens: 4 unexpected ways to grow in the city

    During the Second World War, the British created the so-called Victory Gardens: small metropolitan gardens where you can grow food for your sustenance as a response to the strong lack of food due to the strict restrictions of the ongoing war. Furthermore, these gardens served to strengthen relationships within the community, as a source of distraction from the horrors of war.


    But what we show you is an exceptional example: it was, in fact, built inside a crater formed after an attack in London.

    The unusual garden is proof that it can truly be cultivated in any place, even in those indelibly marked by the horrors of war.

    these unusual urban gardens they can truly change the life of large city cities whether they produce flowers or produce edible plants.

    Good growth at all.

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