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Art + Botany: Wave Hill's Wild Garden Exhibit

Tending Toward the Untamed: Artists Respond to the Wild Garden is a collection of work that interprets the relationship between nature and the gardener as it grows at Wave Hill, a garden overlooking the Hudson River, in Bronx, New York. Our Q&A with Jennifer McGregor, Director of Arts and Senior Curator at Wave Hill.

Field Recordings at the Hort

By Andrew Sessa

Saul Becker and Stephen Vitiello have a new installation, Field Recordings—a mix of layered soundscapes and visual art, many made with botanicals electroplated with copper—at the Horticultural Society of New York thorugh July 6, 2012.

On Tap: Our New Favorite Drinks Dispenser

By David Masello

Happy Fourth of July! We love this drinks dispenser, which holds about two gallons of your favorite lemonade, iced tea, or water.

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Photo Gallery

By David Masello

Take a tour through Monticello's bountiful garden.

Split-Level Garden in Santa Barbara

Deft design surprises, and an 80-year-old tale of local landscape rivalry, lurk beneath the cooly elegant facade of Sydney Baumgartner's Santa Barbara garden

The Best Mail-Order Plant Sources

By Lindsey Taylor

Our favorite sources for mail order succulents, orchids, mosses, and other rare plants.

Living Roof on a Bus

By Claire Lui

The bio bus, a mobile science laboratory that travels around New York and the Midwest, providing science education to schoolchildren, also has a living, growing roof that is both aesthetically and functionally green—reclaiming common urban space and transforming it into a moveable garden. Created by Marco Castro Cosio, this living bus roof (his digital prototype is shown above) is an unusual take on green roofs.

Prince William and Kate's Honeymoon Souvenir: A Giant Seed

By Claire Lui

One of our most popular botanic superlative columns was about the seed of the coco-de-mer (The Largest Seed), which, according to the British tabloids, was a honeymoon souvenir for Prince William and his new bride, Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, from their time in the Seychelles Islands. After all, who doesn't want a giant, bottom-like nut for their new house?

Crazy Plant Trend of the Day: Books as Planters

By Claire Lui

Gartenkultur of Italy transforms books into witty and whimsical planters, using hardback and paperback volumes to create an array of unusual planters.

Decorators Gone Wild

By Stephen Treffinger

What happens when interior decorators let loose their considerable talents on the natural world? Check out the photographs from "Landscape Pleasures," an event held at the Parish Art Museum, in Southhampton, New York, this year, which showcased the gardens of celebrated interior designers.