Top 5 posts of 2012

Hopefully you're all getting ready to enjoy 2013! We are excited for the new year, but we're also looking back at the one that has past. At the end of May, 2012 we started seriously blogging, and so we wanted to take this post to look back at our top 5 posts of 2012(based on post views)! Here's to hoping we have plenty of popular posts to pick from in 2013!

1. June 25: Gardening Inspiration

This post looked into the amazing and interesting world of vertical gardens! When looking back, it isn't hard to believe this post is popular. It's inspiring, especially to our readers who might live in more urban areas and can't plant a huge backyard garden.

2. June 29: Photo Friday

                  

This photo friday is simply of a flower near Iowa City. It's beautiful and simple, and captures an Iowa summer. 

3. September 17: Top 15 T-Shirt DIYs

This post was a collection of DIY projects that focused on upcycling old t-shirts! Fun and easy, these DIYs got a lot of traffic and it's easy to see why looking back.

4. August 13: Featured Article: A Green Business Rating System, Created by Middle School Students

This article was another sustainability article that got a lot of traction! It's definitely a good read, and proves that even the young generation is concerned about sustainability.

5. Jun 13: GreenRU Helps Student's Compost Crusade

This story occurred in Iowa, and it's inspiring to see a young woman take such and ardent intrest in reducing her school's waste stream! If you haven't checked out Lilly's story we'd definitely recommend taking a second to read it now.

Gardening Inspiration

In this day and age it's becoming increasingly hard to have enough room to garden everything you would like, especially in urban areas. It's due to this trend that a new gardening fashion has arose, vertical gardening. If you've been on Pinterest, there are tons of tutorials for how to make your own. Some are fairly simple:

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While others can be fairly complex:

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We found a few that are inspiring us to try out vertical gardening on our own, so we thought we'd share them with you as well! Enjoy our top 10 Pinterest Vertical Gardens!

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We love this one because it's simple, and you can recycle old coffee tins or other old cans in the process! We also think this one would be easy to do at home.

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This one is cute and could easily work both as an interior and exterior garden, if you wanted to add a little green to your sitting room. 

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This one is more inspiration than an easy how-to, but we love the look of making your plant life decorative, and we think these plants will definitely be getting enough light and rain!

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This pin leads to a DIY for this vertical garden, which was much simpler than we thought it would be! It also looks like a framed work of art, and we love that it almost becomes a decorative piece as well as a garden. 

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This is similar to the last one, but with a bit of asymmetrical flair. While there isn't a tutorial, we imagine that you could make it the same way as the previous vertical garden, just arrange the planters differently.

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Another vertical garden made of recycled materials! Recycle mason jars and old pieces of wood, from a pallet or otherwise, to make this fun little herb garden! 

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Whoa. That's about all we can say for this building turned mountain.

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What can we say, we're a sucker for Vertical gardens that recycle. And this one has a creative twist, as it doesn't climb up a wall, but rather hangs down, like planters only more space efficient!

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We love this trellis style vertical garden for a bit of a different, but classic, flair. 

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We're going to finish with an awe inspiring piece by one of the most famous vertical garden designers, Patrick Blanc. This pin links to an article with a bunch of pictures of his vertical gardens, you should definitely check them out for some inspiration.

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