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Botanic Notables: Albino Redwoods

By Anna Laurent

No one knows exactly how many albino redwoods there are in the world, but their snow-white needles are unmistakable. These "ghosts of the forest" lack chlorophyll, and receive nutrients from a parent redwood tree.

Links We Love: 4/20/12

By Claire Lui

A garden shed compeition (including an entire category devoted to Tardis-inspired sheds), why trees matter, Earth Day, new blogs from Wired and One Kings Lane, orchid show in Houston, DIY Saturdays at CB2, and a Savage Love column for insects.

Art + Botany: The Claude Glass

By Anna Laurent

Before there was Instagram, there was the Claude glass—a small, tinted, convex mirror that was popular in the 18th century. Toted in artists' cases and tourists' pockets, the portable mirror offered a transformed view of the scenery that became popular with wealthy British vacationers—a world viewed through a Claude glass was a journey through ephemeral snapshots of softly-rendered nostalgia.

Crazy Plant Trend of the Day: Lifes of Grass

By Claire Lui

On display until mid-May at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee, these sculptures by French artist Mathilde Roussel feature suspended human bodies covered in wheat grass.

Anna Schuleit's Bloom

By Claire Lui

Anna Schuleit's 2003 piece Bloom installed 28,000 potted flowers in the Massachussetts Mental Health Center before it closed.

Reviving Jens Jensen

By Paul O'Donnell

Landscape architect Jens Jensen (1860 to 1951), designer of numerous parks in Chicago (and around the country), including the Garfield Park Conservatory (above), is the subject of a new documentary, Jens Jensen: Harmonious World, which will be shown on PBS this fall.

Tom Armstrong's Fishers Island Home

By Paul O'Donnell

When Tom Armstrong's house burned down, the only thing left was the garden. Rebuilding was his chance to let the landscape come first.

Tom Armstrong's Fishers Island Home, Slide Show

By Paul O'Donnell

On Fishers Island, off the Connecticut coast, Tom and Bunty Armstrong took the opportunity to build a house to complement their garden, after a fire destoryed their original home. Photographs of the stunning garden and the new house.

Botanic Notables: An Endemic Wildflower in Oregon

By Anna Laurent

A rare, endemic daisy-like wildflower was named after a local botanist in Oregon—now, a forest road could threaten one of its two habitats. Look for Veva's Erigeron on your next hike!

Art + Botany: Wave Hill's Wild Garden Exhibit

By Anna Laurent

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.