Front Yard Company - Blog

Plantlock = Cycling + an urban garden

dan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:57:03 +0000

See http://chriskenyon.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/07/plantlock—cyc.html

Even unicycles use PlantLocks

dan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:20:59 +0000

Mike / www.unicyclemagazine.com

Luscious PlantLocks

dan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:20:57 +0000

Oval House Theatre gets PlantLocks

dan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:38:08 +0000

Mixed planting, with 1 PlantLock reserved for an employee who wanted to grow herbs & veg.

Local authorities using PlantLock for secure bikeparking

dan — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:08:53 +0000

Brixton has its first on-street PlantLocks on Acre Lane & Stockwell Road. Planted with a mixture of low maintenance, drought-tolerant plants (sedums, alpines, wildflowers), and hebes & flowering annuals, shops are caring for the planting.

Waitrose using PlantLocks for their new stores

dan — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:04:03 +0000

Cyclists shopping at new Waitrose stores in St. Neots, & Buckingham, now have PlantLocks to securely lock their bikes to.PlantLocks support bicycles well while loading up panniers.

Spring!

dan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:14:46 +0000

The first bees appear on PlantLocks planted with a flowering crab apple tree & grape hyacinths.

BoxDocks & BinDocks appearing in Front Yards

dan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:39:17 +0000

More schools using PlantLock

dan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:52:43 +0000

Gainsborough school, Hackney, and Buckland Brewer school, Devon are some of the latest schools to take deliveries of PlantLocks for their school bikeparking. And ‘Ecoteachers of the Year’ from Summerhill & Cardinal Newman schools in Brighton & Hove’s Young Environmentalist of the Year Awards were presented with PlantLocks by Oliver Heath (interior designer & TV presenter).

Charlie Waterhouse writes:

dan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:26:16 +0000

In a world where domestic and civic design all too often delivers little more than idle affectation, the Front Yard Company’s PlantLock is a joy.

A mind-bogglingly undercomplicated invention, it simultaneously safeguards your bike, provides greenery and unclutters the house. Moreover, it encourages the use of that great British waste of space known as the front garden.

If embraced by urban planners, as it must surely be, the double whammy of parking and perking-up the locale can only encourage more people to ditch the infernal combustion engine.

Security, biodiversity, community and total-feng-shui rolled into one – who knew boron steel could be so brilliant?

Bugger bringing the Olympics to Britain. £3 billion would buy enough pre-seeded PlantLocks for 50 million bikes. Now that would be a properly meaningful contribution to the health of the nation.

International design collections must already be making space among the Eames and the Ives. The rest of us just need to move the wheelie bins.

Oh, those Front Yard people can help there too…