Posts Tagged ‘5bai Midori’
21
Dec
Posted by palmsundae in Residences. Tagged: 5bai Midori, 5x緑, balcony, bonsai, cabbage, camellia, cyclamen, fairy white, flower, garden, maple, Morning glory, pansy, pink, satoyama, white, winter. Leave a Comment
Reading about this weekend’s winter snowstorm in the US mid-Atlantic, I realize how mild and wonderful Tokyo winters are. December is the season for camellias, and the balcony garden also has pansies, fairy white daisies, cyclamen, geranium, decorative cabbage, one last morning glory flower, and a maple bonsai just turning red now.
Below you can see [...]
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10
Nov
Posted by palmsundae in Residences. Tagged: green curtain, green, balcony, garden, bonsai, Saipan, satoyama, 5bai Midori, 5x緑, pot, Kobayashi Kenji, 小林健二, Sinajina, ceramic, fruit, fall, view, pine, black, Mt Fuji, curtain, unit, Ojizō-sama, lemon, shelf, floor, November. Leave a Comment
With cooler nights, fall is definitely upon us. I took these photos in the first week of November to document the passing of the seasons on our balcony garden. Above a dramatic sunset over Mt Fuji illuminates the very end of the morning glory green curtain. As you can see in the photo below, there [...]
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10
Oct
Posted by palmsundae in Residences, Walking and transit, biodiversity, small business. Tagged: #18, 5bai Midori, 5x緑, Ardisia japonica, awning, balcony, Camellia sasanqua, Carex siderosticta, change, Clematis terniflora, Eurya japonica, exposure, garden, growth, Kerria japonica, Liriope muscari, Melor, native, north, pedestrian, Petasites japonicus, plants, police, pottery, Quercus acustissima, Quercus myrsinaefolia, Quercus serrata, Reineckea carnea, satoyama, season, shady, Shiho, southern, studio, suginami, sun, theft, Trachelospermum asiaticum, Trachelospermum jasminoides, typhoon, units. Leave a Comment
Thursday 5bai Midori delivered the three “satoyama units” I ordered, two for my home and one for Shiho, the pottery studio I attend in Suginami. I was amazed that the delivery service was uninterrupted by Typhoon #18 (known as Melor outside Japan), the first typhoon to hit Japan’s mainland in two years.
5bai Midori’s native plants [...]
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1
Oct
Posted by palmsundae in Nodai, fellowship, small business. Tagged: 5bai Midori, article, 田瀬理夫, 田中淳夫, 飯村一樹, 高安和夫, Ginza Farm, green curtain, Iimura Kazuki, Kobayashi Kenji, magazine, Metropolis, Omotesando Farm, Sinajina, Suzuki Makoto, Tase Michio, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 品品, 小林健二. 1 Comment
Metropolis magazine in Japan published my article on Tokyo Green Space. It’s my first general interest article on some of the amazing green space innovators I have met during my research in Tokyo: including Ginza rice farmers and bee keepers, a modern bonsai
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26
Aug
Posted by palmsundae in biodiversity, trees. Tagged: 10th Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 5bai Midori, birds, butterflies, COP10, eco-system, Environment Ministry, 里山, fish, forest, managed, Nagoya, paddies, plants, rice, satoyama, Satoyama Initiative, species, Takeuchi Kazuhiko, woodland. 2 Comments
Satoyama (里山), a term I first heard from 5bai Midori, describes a Japanese eco-system that supports biodiversity and is paradoxically the result of human transformation of forests over 2,000 years of rice farming. A fascinating Japan Times article explains what satoyama is, and how it is threatened on the one hand by large-scale agribusiness and pesticides [...]
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22
Jul
Posted by palmsundae in Community, Visionary, Walking and transit, heat island effect, trees. Tagged: 5bai Midori, 5x緑, apartment building, architect, bicycle, bird, boxes, entrance, greenery, Kakinokizaka, Kami Meguro, maintenance, maximize, Moegi, native plants, rain, residence, shade, sidewalk, Tase Michio, willow, wisteria. 1 Comment
Recently a director and landscape designer from 5bai Midori took me on a tour of three projects in Meguro, two residences across from each other and an apartment building. The two houses in Kami Meguro are across from eachother, with one residence garden inspiring its neighbor. Above you can see how the plants have thrived [...]
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22
May
Posted by palmsundae in Visionary, small business. Tagged: 5bai Midori, 5x緑, apartment building, balcony, bench, boulevard, construction companies, cube, 田瀬理夫, developers, entrance, 里山, government, green walls, guard rails, highway, individuals, Kabukicho, local, maintenance, Marunouchi, modular, native plants, neighborhood, office building, palette, rooftops, satoyama, sidewalk, species, Tase Michio, trays. 2 Comments
In an earlier post, I talked a little about 5bai Midori’s street beautification products and the creative force behind this small green business Tase Michio. This post uses photos from their website to explore their idea of restoring the countryside, or satoyama(里山), and bringing it into the city.
The photos above illustrate the concept of carving [...]
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21
May
Posted by palmsundae in Visionary. Tagged: 5bai Midori, Acros Fukuoka, bench, biodiversity, construction, 田瀬理夫, 里山, Fukushima, grass-covered, grasses, hawks, high-rises, Imperial Palace, intermediate, narrow path, native plants, nature, plant regions, psychological, real estate, satoyama, shrubs, species, Tase Michio, ticks, Tokuji, tray, trees. 1 Comment
This week I had the amazing opportunity to meet one of my landscape design heroes, Tase Michio (田瀬理夫) of Plamtago. He has created urban architecture and a green business that bring native plants and habitats to urban areas. His most famous work is the 1995 Acros Fukuoka building, a 15 story lush hillside on top [...]
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5
May
Posted by palmsundae in Visionary, small business, trees. Tagged: 5bai Midori, 5x緑, biodiversity, grasses, modular, native plants, rooftops, shrubs, street medians, trees, urban forest, wildlife. 2 Comments
As a gesture for improving a huge street in Shibuya, I admire the shop owner who contributed these small planters with pansies. It certainly makes the wide sidewalk, busy street and subway construction zone a bit more beautiful.
As a contrast for visionary ideas to improve major streets, I am showing below an image from a [...]
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