Small Space (or Urban) Gardening

Even without much space, you can still enjoy the delicious satisfaction of growing your own vegetables. Planters like the Urbanscape make it easy to create a vegetable garden in nearly any free space: a balcony, a patio or a deck.

What to grow?

The Urbanscape features growing holes for a hanging garden to grow below the large top planter. Any vining vegetable can be grown in a hanging garden. Tomatoes are the best known upside down vegetable and cherry tomatoes are the most manageable.

Peppers can also be grown easily upside down and any variety can be grown. Cucumbers are also an excellent choice, as well as beans and small eggplants. Not a vegetable, but certainly delicious – Strawberries can also be grown inverted.

The top planter of the Urbanscape is large enough to grow many other vegetables – Lettuce, Radishes, cabbage, zucchini, and herbs make excellent choices.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

London Arbor

Sure our products would be just as attractive, durable and stylish with any name, but the best things have a story behind them; and our product names are no exception. Our oldest line of products were named after cities in New England: Springfield, New Haven, Waterbury, Manchester, Fairfield, Sturbridge. Some of those products are still around and some have evolved into newer, updated versions of their old selves. When our line of smaller arbors was launched, it took a decidedly more cosmopolitan turn: Vienna, Monaco, Florence, London.

When our Pergolas were introduced with names like Venetian, Bellagio and Riviera, the relaxing, resort-like inspiration is clear, but there have been other names that seem like anomalies, but have meaning behind them, indeed, are tributes of sorts.

The Livingston Arbor is in honor of a vacation to Scotland, The Kensington Planter Box with Trellis a nod to Kensington Gardens; The Versailles Raised Garden Bed to the Garden of Versailles.

Versailles Raised Garden Bed

And in our new products for this year, there is another tribute: Our new modern, aesthetic composite raised planter has been named in a nod to a group of modern aesthetes – The Bloomsbury Group.

We're also working on adding a product that our customers have been clamoring for  -  a potting bench! Which will be called the Burbank Potting bench, after Luther Burbank, a botanist and horticulturalist who developed more than 800 varieties of plants!

Products in the wild: NYC

A savvy spotter sent us this snap of a whole slew of our Windsor long planter boxes hanging out on the patio at the Battery Gardens Restaurant in the financial district (Battery Park) in NYC. Battery Gardens Restaurant features great view of the Statue of Liberty and Governors island and all of the boats in the harbor and we can imagine the view is just as nice from this angle in the spring and summer when all of these Windsor long planters are full of flowers in full bloom!