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International Plant Appreciation Day with Evrgreen + giveaway

Post author By Judith de Graaff
Post date 13 April 2016

Did you know that today is the “International Plant Appreciation Day”? Well as real plant lovers you might celebrate that day everyday just like us. But it is nice to highlight our green friends on a special day like today. And to make the celebration even more special for you, dear Urban Jungle Bloggers, we have teamed up with Evrgreen, a Cologne based plant webshop, founded by two young guys, Jan and Philip, who have decided to bring more happy greens into the homes of their clients.

To celebrate the ‘International Plant Appreciation Day’ together with Evrgreen and you all, we have opted for a pretty quirky plant that regularly gains your interest on Urban Jungle Bloggers: the Tillandsia or airplant. This is a genus of more than 700 species of blooming plants from Central and South America and bordering regions. They belong to the family of Bromeliaceae and most of them are epiphytes, that means they grow without soil by being attached to other plants. These quirky fellows have also become very popular houseplants for their unique looks and their minimal requirements regarding plant care: no soil needed, no plant pots needed, just air, light and some regular misting or a thorough bath in water!

But now let’s come to you, dear readers: We are giving away in collaboration with Evrgreen five airplants on Instagram! How to join in?

Come over to Instagram, follow our account (if you’re not already following) and leave a comment under the airplant image! The giveaway is open to all readers across the globe and will run until Tuesday, April 19th 2016 midnight CET. We will announce the five happy winners on Instagram on Wednesday, April 20th 2016. Join in & good luck!

And for all of you Evrgreen is offering a 25% discount today to celebrate the ‘International Plant Appreciation Day’. So why not add a new green roomie to your home like today? Just use the discount code #ETdP2016 in their webshop.

And now go give your plants an extra dose of plant love! Water them, mist them, repot them, play some music for them – simply enjoy a happy home with happy plants. And remember: Everyday is Plant Appreciation Day!

Images via Evrgreen

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Tags airplants, Evrgreen, giveaway, Houseplants, indoor plants, International Plant Appreciation Day, plants, Tillandsia

Giveaway Planty Product

Tina Frey Designs Urban Garden Collection + giveaway!

Post author By Judith de Graaff
Post date 23 April 2015

Tina Frey Designs just launched a new collection called the Urban Garden Collection. Known for her smooth homeware designs in resin, this new collection is all about the outdoors and includes different plant pots, bowls, champagne buckets and even swings!

Each item is designed and hand sculpted by Tina Frey in San Francisco. Sculpting starts with an idea that is cohesive with the rest of the collection. When the clay design is completed, hand-made molds are created for each object. The molds are used to cast each item individually by hand in small batches by color. Slight color variations between batches contribute to the beauty and uniqueness of each piece. After the pieces are cast and removed from the mold, they are hand sanded. They are truly made with care. The shapes are inspired by organic forms in nature and objects found in travels around the world. The colors are inspired by delicious translucent popsicles, candies, and jelly beans.

The items from Tina Frey’s Urban Garden collection fit in all kinds of urban jungles: whether you prefer a black & white Scandi style, or pops of bright colors, these planters and bowls will bring a nice and chic handmade touch to your home. Of course we had a go and styled a hanging planter and a large bowl ourselves. These super smooth resin beauties became a swinging planter for Igor’s Munich abode and a mini succulent garden in Judith’s French home:

The Hanging Square Vessel 15 is perfect for any kind of small or medium plant, like the Pothos plant Igor used here, or some Ivy vines or Senecio rowleyanus. The Large Square Bowl can be used for small plants that don’t need a lot of depth like succulents and small cacti. Or you can use it as a fruit or salad bowl!

In line with the upcoming April Edition of Urban Jungle Bloggers: “Offer a plant to a friend”, we are giving away two items from Tina Frey Designs! You can win a Hanging Square Vessel 15 in white (value 100$) on Happy Interior Blog and a Large Square Bowl in white (value 85$) on JOELIX.com. Simply leave a comment there with your favorite item from the Tina Frey Designs store for a chance to win one of these hand sculpted beauties:

This giveaway was open worldwide from Monday, April 20th until Sunday, April 26th, on JOELIX.com and Happy Interior Blog and is now closed. The winner of the hanging planter is Nikola an the winner of the large bowl is Maria. Thank you all for playing!

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Shed Decor Book Review + Giveaway

Post author By Igor Josifovic
Post date 9 April 2015
60 Comments on Shed Decor Book Review + Giveaway

As Urban Jungle Bloggers few of us will have a proper garden shed. But we can dream of one, right? Many of us have creative corners at home, workplaces where we get new ideas, where we style and decorate. The new book ‘Shed Decor’ by Sally Coulthard is another title you should add to your interior loving (and plant loving) library – no matter whether you have a garden shed or not.

The book’s subtitle reads: How to decorate and furnish your favorite garden room. Some of you might be lucky enough to have a garden room, others will dream of a garden room when reading this book (if you don’t dream of one already). The book gives inspiration and ideas how to decorate and furnish outdoor rooms and garden sheds to create beautiful and useable living or work spaces.

The book is structured in two parts – the first showcases various shed decor styles while the second deals with shed decor basics. Each style section is accompanied by an ‘Essentials’ section with shopping tips to easily recreate the style in your own shed and case studies to give you a real-life idea. The shed decor basics part features all elements of interior styling spanning from fabrics, flooring, walls, furniture and more.

If you like to get more inspiration and extend your interior design library, you can simply win a copy of ‘Shed Decor’ here on Urban Jungle Bloggers. All you have to do is leave a comment under this blog post until April 16, 2015. The giveaway is open worldwide. This giveaway has closed now and the winner has been contacted by email. Thank you everybody for joining in!

Shed Decor by Sally Coulthard, published by Jacqui Small

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Tags Book Review, Decorate, Garden Room, giveaway, Shed Decor, Win

Book review Giveaway

Me & My Plant book review + giveaway

Post author By Judith de Graaff
Post date 2 February 2015
46 Comments on Me & My Plant book review + giveaway

With Valentine’s Day coming up in a few weeks, it sounds like a good idea to focus on the true relationship with our green friends. Because when you think of it, the relationship with your plant barely differs from the relationship with loved ones. The more time and love you give them, the better they thrive and the more leafy love you get in return. But how? Caring for plants can be very rewarding, but something we just need a little extra help. And that’s where this book comes in! Me & My Plant by Dutch publisher Snor, gives us the secret to a blossoming relationship with our plant.

In six chapters, the Me & My Plant covers the six phases that a love relationship usually goes through: from falling in love to growing old together. After the first butterflies, we learn how to find the right spot and pot for our green friend and the effect that green spaces have on people. Of course, we don’t live for our plants, we live with our plants and we sometimes need some time for ourselves. In the third chapter we find some very useful holiday survival tips and some geeky tools from around the web to keep track of our plants.

Chapter 4 is a fun one: it’s called New Life, which means propagation, spoiling your plant and some groovy playlists for your plants! Did you know that some plants also absorb noise? Or that there are actual Plant Whisperers? The last chapter is the most poetic one: After being together for so many years, nothing can drive you apart or make you disheartened. Side by side, you battle on – because even though things don’t go as smoothly as before, the love still remains. And if it really is over then at least there’s always the book full of memories.

Overall, Me and My Plant is very complete guidebook with lots of hands-on tips to improve your life with plants. We love the quirky illustrations (by Maaike Kuiper) and the modern twist on subjects that we can find in all traditional botanical books, like watering, propagation and repotting. It’s the perfect book for any Urban Jungle Blogger, whether you want to find out which plant would best fit your lifestyle or want to learn more about what plants actually do for you.

And because we want to share the love for plants with YOU, we teamed up with Snor to give away 3 of these books in Dutch. Simply leave a comment below and we will announce 3 winners next week, on Monday February 9th! This giveaway is open worldwide, but please note that the books for the winners are written in Dutch. Fingers crossed!

This giveaway is now closed. The 3 winners are Nina, Marij and Yzette and they have been contacted by email. Thank you for playing everyone!

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Giveaway Planty Inspiration

Plant shelfie winners

Post author By Judith de Graaff
Post date 18 November 2014

A tough job, but someone had to do it: choose the 5 winners out of 60 wonderful plant shelfies! Without further ado, these are our favorites:

My Paradissi
Dramaqueen at Work
LapinBlu
Mademoiselle Poirot
Traedraum

If you, Eleni, Barbara, Sarah-Lou, Carole and Jan, send us an email at hello (at) urbanjunglebloggers.com with your snailmail address we will send you a little something in the mail very soon.

Thanks everyone for playing! And of course, if you missed it, you can still check out all October plant shelfies right here.

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