Ideas

Ideas
From our garden to yours, we share inspiration from around the world for gardens big and small.
Incorporate fresh herbs, fruits, & veggies into delicious concoctions.
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Garden Designers at Home by Noel Kingsbury.
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Drawing inspiration from artists including Imogen Cunningham, Karl Blossfeldt, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Mary Delaney, Isabel Bannerman creates striking portraits of plants on black backgrounds. 
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Royal plant news includes olive branches from King Tut and these Chia Pet-like planters for QEII (above). Plus: Grow-it-yourself dyes, chicken-friendly yards, and how to pick the right houseplant. 
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Looking for a new blossom for your Easter vases? How about a lily with three times as many petals as traditional Liliums? Designed primarily for the cut flower market, Roselilies have some very unique attributes: an absence of pollen, a lighter fragrance, and a very long vase life. Check your local florist for two varieties ('Belonica' and 'Fabiola'); the others will be available later in 2012 and 2013. 

 

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Painted from specimens in Kew's Herbarium, Rachel Pedder-Smith's Herbarium Specimen Painting is an 18-foot masterpiece of botanic illustration, and a tapestry with hundreds of narratives that depict a history of plant evolution and scientific discovery. 
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Do you know about our digital Look Books? Check out Passion for Plants, if you haven't already.
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A familiar bulb sparks passion both sides of the Atlantic—our exclusive photographs of five show-stopping varieties of daffodils (and suggestions for similar alternatives to grow at home).
The purple-leaf plum tree is blossoming, which means it's spring! It is a beautiful ornamental tree that bears edible fruits—perfect for summer foraging and winter preserves.
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Botanical illustrator Sally Jacobs finds her subjects at Los Angeles farmers markets. A show of her vegetable watercolor portraits just opened at a gallery in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica. 
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An early look at the new 10,000 square-foot-living roof on top of the new Brooklyn Botanic Garden visitor center, due to open on May 16, 2012. Plus: Photos of magnolias—in yellow and pinks—in bloom at the garden!
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A reminder about some Cultural Landscape Foundation garden tours that are coming up, as well as the deadline for Landslide: Landscape and Patronage's call for nominations—Landslide is a program that highlights endangered landscapes around the country.
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