We’ve already talked about ways to make a very low maintenance and easy green wall in your house.Here – more ideas from our recent projects.
Bromeliads are a great way to add drought tolerant, low maintenance color to your garden. No trimming required! These architectural plants come in a number of sizes and colors that can serve as accent plants, ground covers or mass plantings. There are varieties for both sun and shade. You can plant them in the ground, …
Have a blank outdoor wall that you would like to soften with plants? Studio Sprout has been experimenting with a variety of ways to mount low maintenance air plants to do just that. Air plants don’t require soil and while they do best with some misting and occasional watering (can be from rain), they are …
Studio Sprout has been experimenting with woolly pockets for a couple of years now with great success! Woolly pockets are felt, partially recycled plastic lined planters that can be mounted on walls. The back is plastic lined so that it doesn’t mold on your wall, the front unlined part allows drainage through the felt. We …
The ground breaking for the new home for Spodak Dental Group took place on Friday, November 9. The building design by Michael Singer Studios and Richard A Jones Architects will be a LEED certified project. Most great projects are the result of a great client; Dr. Spodak has taken great pains to make sure that …
During a debate about offshore drilling right after the oil spill began, the proponent for offshore drilling made a good point: better that we drill here where we have regulations. The problem isn’t drilling per se; it is the American people’s demand for oil. If we don’t drill here, the demand will be met by …
Maybe it IS worth having a pet spider to get rid of those unwanted insects! In the year 2000, poison centers in the US responded to 86,880 poisoning incidents related to pesticides and half of those incidents involved children under six years old. Pesticides and chemicals used on a lawn can be absorbed by your …
The University of Florida publication on Community ButterflyScaping is now published! This new and unique concept helps to envision large scale butterfly habitats. The techniques can be used by developers, community associations and large commercial campuses. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/EP/EP42000.pdf Contact us at www.studio-sprout.com for color pictures of butterfly plants for South Florida.
Hurrah! If you haven’t seen it yet – head over to Worth Avenue to see the HUGE! Green wall installed on the western elevation of Saks. It is not only environmentally friendly but also beautiful, well thought out with textures and varieties of greens to truly make a work of art!
Who says you can’t grow anything in South Florida over the summer? We have watermelon all over here at Studio Sprout. It was incredably easy – seeds from a local hardware store (nothing special), minimal (who are we kidding – none is more like it) fertilizer and the seedlings thrived on rainwater. The vines, flowers …