Woohoo! Our recent plantings of Woolly School Gardens at Santee and Frida Kahlo caught the eye of the L.A. Times! Every day, more people are learning about the benefits of Woolly School Gardens! Did you know you can help bring 250 edible school gardens with a click of  your mouse? It’s easy, just vote today and everyday in June for Woolly School Gardens on Pepsi’s Refresh Everything Website!

To vote, click on the above image or visit WoollySchoolGarden.org for a direct link to the voting page! And Please Spread the Word! Thanks for your support!

Here’s a nice mention in the National Gardening Association’s most recent newsletter. We’re super excited to see Woolly Pocket is resonating with gardeners across the country!

image via NY Daily News

A Woolly Good Morning in New York! Today’s front page of the New York Daily News has a great writeup of Woolly Pocket!

image via Apartment Therapy SF

And over on the West Coast, Apartment Therapy San Francisco profiles the beautiful home of Julie and James. They dramatically improved the view from their kitchen window by planting 3 Wallys on a paint peeled wall. What a great effect with minimal effort! This is a great example of an easy project for people living in small spaces to add some greenery into their lives! Have a Woolly Weekend!

When it comes to cooking tasty food, nothing is more important than starting with fresh ingredients. You can’t get much fresher than picking herbs and vegetables growing inside your kitchen! With a few strategically placed Wallys, you can create a space saving and beautiful indoor herb or vegetable garden on any kitchen wall. That’s the exact conclusion Lauren Salkeld came to when she first came across Woolly Pocket. She writes on epicurious.com:

Since the moment I heard about Woolly Pockets, a line of hanging plant containers made of soft felt, I’ve been harboring fantasies of filling my tiny New York apartment with them, creating what the company calls living walls or vertical gardens. I can just imagine my kitchen wall covered in pockets of herbs, cherry tomatoes, maybe even some small hot peppers.

We couldn’t agree more! The article also has links to some excellent tips on choosing and growing herbs and vegetables. Thanks for the great article Lauren, and for letting your readers know about our Woolly School Garden program.

Photo Credit: Carlsbad Current Argus

Last weekend, gardeners from around Southern California and beyond gathered at the Los Angeles Arboretum for Living Green: Essentials for the Home Gardener, the latest edition of the L.A. Garden Show. Visitors were able to view a selection of beautiful gardens that incorporate sustainability and best practices for edible gardening.

Woolly Pocket was right at home as an ideal vertical garden system for a ”Habitat Wall” designed by Stephanie Barton & Mayita Dinos. Their design caught the eye of celebrated garden writer, Debra Prinzing, who recently wrote in her review of the show:

using the Woolly Pockets planting system, the installation overflowed with plants providing nectar, larval food, forage and nesting spots for local butterflies, bees and birds…

Photo Credit: Debra Prinzing

A successful garden will inevitably have multiple benefits. One we find particularly Woolly is providing nature’s critters with nourishment and sanctuary. In urban gardens, this is especially important. Another benefit of a vertical garden is the cooling effect that plants provide as they absorb the sun’s energy, instead of heating your home. In the winter, the living wall insulates the home, retaining heat where you need it, indoors.

We’ll be sharing more benefits of vertical gardens in future blog posts. For now, visit our website to learn more about the Wally Vertical Gardening System. Happy gardening!

Last week Woolly Pocket teamed up with New York Restoration Project to grow a Woolly Wall in Union Square to celebrate Earth Day!

With help from a team of expert pocketers, especially Billie Cohen who designed and planted this living gateway!

All Photos by Shannon Sturgis

The Living Wall remained on display for the NYC Grows event held last Sunday. Several New Yorkers signed up to become an NYRP member during the NYC Grows festival and received one of the 300 Wallys from the wall. In addition, Woolly Pocket and NYRP donated more than 100 Wallys to local schools!

Many bloggers couldn’t resist sharing the Living Wall with their readers! A Big Woolly Thank You to:

Gothamist

QueenieNYC

Photo by Christina von Messling

A Living Chandelier? Yes, that’s just one of the many Woolly ideas springing out of the mind of Mad Scientist uh Woolly Pockets Creator Miguel Nelson. To learn more about Miguel, such as where the idea for Woolly Pockets came from, check out these recent interviews in Readymade and Mondette.

Apartment Therapy looks at 4 options for creating Vertical Gardens

If you want to go a more dramatic route, you can look into Woolly Pockets which have larger pockets for planting bigger plants like ferns and begonias (Image #3). They’re made of fabric that breathes so you won’t get mold or mildew building up in the pockets or on your walls. Plus you can hang them as a partition in a large space like a loft!

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Be sure to catch tomorrow’s episode of The Martha Stewart Show where she’ll discover how easy it is to create a vertical garden using Woolly Pockets! We’re thrilled to be sharing our innovative products with Martha and her audience! Go to www.marthastewart.com for showtimes in your area!

UPDATE: Video of the segment is now online at http://www.marthastewart.com/article/living-walls

Tune in to HGTV to see a segment called “Edible Garden” on Jamie Durie’s The Oudoor Room. Jamie uses Woolly Pockets to create a vertical organic garden! The show airs on the following dates and times:

March 20, 2010 @ 1:00 PM e/p
April 23, 2010 @ 4:00 PM e/p

With a client roster that includes A-list celebrities and five-star hotels, Jamie Durie is one of the most well-renowned and sought-after landscape artists in the world. We’re thrilled he’s discovered Woolly Pockets! Have you?