The Gardens of Italy

Thanks, Haute*Nature for posting about Giardiningiro.

Giardiningiro is an international event taking place in Torino, Italy. It is an artistic endeavour to showcase twenty garden installations in the district of San Salvario near the river Po. It is part of a sustainable energy campaign, to raise awareness and start discussion about ways to utilize and work within an urban landscape. It is running October 9th-11th.

We can all learn some lessons from this artistic undertaking in Italy that we can bring right into our own backyards. In terms of urban gardening, there are tons of different ways we can get creative!

One of my favorite Urban Gardening sites is URBNGRDN. Here are a few photos from that blog to inspire you:

How do we make our back yard gardens energy sustainable like the installations along the Po? Solar lights, of course. Did you know… solar lights don’t have to be replaced? That’s right! No changing light bulbs or any of that nonesese. You don’t even have to remember to plug them in. They soak up the sun all day and as the sun sets, they start to glow. Beautiful and green, just the way we like it.

You can get them all here.

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