Tag: garden
London’s Largest Living Wall Is Also A Sustainable Drainage System
There have been quite a few vertical forests and gardens that have made it into the news over the past few years. I hope that means greening up urban areas is becoming a real trend since there are so many positive aspects to it. This particular one is in London, and it's being called London's larges ...
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How To Make An Anti-Stress Miniature Zen Garden For Your Desk [Chart]
The purpose of a Zen garden, or Japanese rock garden, is to help de-stress and relax you when you need a breather from life. It is supposed to evoke feelings of tranquility, calmness and peace. It usually consists of just a few natural elements like sand, gravel and rocks. If you like to get into yo ...
Indoor Eco-System With Freshwater Fish & Vegetable Patch Mimics Nature
With so much focus on technology and how it enhances our lives and everything inside our homes, there is something about this indoor eco-system that relies on the delicate balance of the relationship between plants and fish that is really appealing. This freshwater fish and vegetable patch eco-syste ...
Spunky Urban Wall Garden Created From Recycled Plastic Soda Bottles
You don't have to spend a lot of money to create a stunning garden outside your home. There are all kinds of things found in your home that can be recycled into your garden motif. I'm talking about used aluminum foil, used tea leaves, cardboard toilet paper tubes, egg cartons, plastic bottles and mo ...
Infect Your Home With Flesh Eating Monster Zombie Gnomes
As a self-proclaimed geek, one of my favorite things to collect are gnomes. Gnomes have slowly started to take over my room and inch their way downstairs on every shelf of my bookcase. I have a gnome for each one of my favorite sports teams (New England Patriots, New York Yankees and Philadelphia Fl ...
DIY Mini Gardens That Grow Inside Your Favorite Seashells
These shells remind me of the little hermit crab that lived in a shell that I brought home from the beach one day when I was six. I put him in a bowl of tap water, and he died a brutal death. I learned the hard way that saltwater animals can't survive in the water we drink. Mother Nature is a mad sc ...
Inspiration: An Indoor Picnic Table Created With Real Grass
If you live in a big city like I do, you probably don't get to go on very many cozy picnics in the park. I love going on picnics, it's one of my favorite things to do, although it's been a few years since I've had the chance to go on one. Where I live, in Atlanta, there is actually more wildlife out ...
How To: Recycle & Reuse Items For Your Garden
We are big fans of reusing and recycling at Bit Rebels. The whole concept of giving a second life to something that might have before been considered trash is becoming more and more popular. Several years ago when well known artists started making things with trash, their creations usually looked ki ...
Wheelbarrow Chair: The Hillbilly Way To Chill In The Sun
There has been quite a lot of coverage about recycling, and most of it (when I come to think of it pretty much everything) that I have mentioned has been quite impressive and inspiring. So is the following reveal. However, this time I can't really say it's something that I would ever put on my bal ...
Beautify The World: Rooftop Gardens On City Buses
It's such a wonderful feeling to know that we can do something to make the world a better place. As Richard and I have talked about before, many people think the only way to do that is to do something big, profound and time consuming. However, that's not the case. Sometimes the simplest little th ...
When Garden Accessories Go Beyond Geeky!
I don't have garden so I don't have to cut the grass, cut the trees or maintain the odds and evens of a garden. So why am I writing about this you may ask? Well there is a simple answer to that really. It's because I am a geek and I need to know everything. Also, how could you pass up an opportu ...
Army Helmets: Their New And Fun Recycled Purpose!
I am one of those people who is heavily against any form of war and conflict. It breaks my heart when a small group of people, apparently driven by greed and power, destroy life for the rest of us on this beautiful planet we get to enjoy for a brief moment in time. I often find myself quoting Jodi ...
How To: Grow A Rainbow Colored Rose
I have never seen one of these rainbow colored roses in person; however, I've always thought they were fake, which is not appealing to me.
However, today I discovered that a rainbow rose can actually be grown. Now... that, on the other hand, is very cool! The process, discovered by Peter Van de ...
This Is A Tiny Mobile House, But It Has Everything!
Just when I started to think that we've nudged the edge of what could be done as far as limited living space, I get the rug pulled out from under my feet. We've covered many unique and inspiring living solutions here at Bit Rebels, but this one must certainly win the competition for being the small ...
How To: Grow Your Own Beer Garden
“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” – Dave Barry (from Twenty Great Beer Quotes)
So many people love beer that quotes about beer are abundant, i ...