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An Inexpensive Balcony Garden

Another innovative garden display at the LA Garden Show this past week was a Balcony Garden by Paul Borden Landscape Design.

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It was a very compact edible garden made from old shipping crates and nifty "nail bins" that can be found at home centers like Home Depot. I thought it was very well done.

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The individual plastic bins can be removed for replanting or shifted to new spots if things need more/less light.

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The idea behind this design was to come up with something that was inexpensive to build and that would fit onto a 10' by 5' space. A balcony railing would only be 42" high, so the back of this planter is just 48" high. Not bad re-purposing...trash to treasure!

Some of my other posts on the LA Garden Show:

Edible Wall

Container Gardens

A Gardener's Chess Set

Posted on May 07, 2009 in Get out there and DIG!, Latest Dirt/Garden News |

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Wicked Gardener

oh - this is brilliant!!! I will Twitter this!

Posted by: Wicked Gardener | May 08, 2009 at 07:15 PM

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