Woolly Pocket "Knoll" in brown

There’s good news for urban dwellers longing for a patch of green in their small space. Brothers Miguel and Rodney Nelson have created portable, flexible, breathable gardening containers dubbed Woolly Pockets. The pockets come in a number of sizes, ranging from the Wee Woolly, which can host a tabletop herb garden, up to the Knoll, which can hold a 15-gallon fruit tree, or Meadow, a 4’ square oasis of vegetation suitable for a small garden. For those who are especially space-challenged, Woolly Pockets offers Wallys, containers that can be hung on walls or other vertical surfaces for aerial gardening. Wallys come in one, three, or five-pocket modules, and can be used to create living walls of any size. Not just for home use, the Pockets have a number of potential applications, including bringing gardening to urban kids. Woolly Pockets has teamed up with School Nutrition Plus to install edible gardens in public schoolyards throughout Los Angeles and is working with the city to create community gardens in other parts of the city. If the product story wasn’t green enough, Woolly Pockets are handmade in the U.S.A. from recycled plastic bottles. And while the company offers the pockets on their site in neutral tones of black, brown, and cream, Miguel Nelson assures us that any color is possible (with a significant order), so if you want your Pocket to complement your posies, that is an option.

Massive living wall made up of multiple "Wally" units