1. With parks budgets under strain, could this , from Berlin -based designer Fabian Brunsing, provide some much-needed revenue? 2. The Australian -designed Wunda Weeder "enables planting, thining, weeding, transplanting or harvesting of row crop vegetables, herbs or flowers", while the operator...
See what I've done with the title there? Made it topical. The search engines are bound to pick it up. 1. Appropriately a South African one first, and next in our weird plants theme is the umbrella thorn tree ( Acacia tortilis ) - widespread (and wide-spreading) trees, but did you know they emit chemical...
1. It's an unusual brief for a landscape architect, but Apple executive Jeff Dauber said of the design for his minimalist San Francisco back garden : "I wanted someone to barf when they look at it." Though completely flat, the surface appears warped towards the lone maple tree - particularly...
The news that the Chinese are becoming addicted to virtual farming seems only a little less strange when seen in light of previous meetings of horticulture and video gaming. Who could forget: Gardening Mama (Nintendo DS) "Plant, water, fertilize, prune, eliminate pests and then harvest what you've...
One of the first rules of marketing is not to give your product a name that your potential customers won't know how to pronounce. Unfortunately for plant suppliers, they have largely been beaten to it by botanists who presumably never manned the phones in sales. For example, we have an upcoming Plant...
Having already encountered a French nursery called Daniel B*stard , and a German glasshouse manufacturer called Plonka , I was delighted to discover that the owner of German plant dealership Reiner Winkendick is, well, see for yourself ...
