Urban Garden

Urban Garden (sculpture)

Urban Garden is a sculpture by Ginny Ruffner, installed in Seattle, Washington, United States. It depicts a pot, flowers, and watering can. The 27-foot-tall kinetic sculpture was commissioned by the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and weighs approximately 10,000 pounds. The pot is 9 feet tall and 7 feet wide.

Urban gardening

Urban gardening is the practice of cultivating and tending a garden in an urban area. Gardening in an urban environment utilizes planting-areas available in cities, such as: community gardens, schoolyards, backyards, rooftops, balconies, walls, window sills, containers, and indoor spaces.. Guerrilla gardening is a form of urban gardening in which garden-making occurs in areas of the city that are publicly or privately owned, without permission.

Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is control. The garden can incorporate both natural and artificial materials.

urban

Adjective

1. Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.
2. Living in a city or town.

garden

Noun

1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
2. Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

Verb

1. To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
2. Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.