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Where Trees Grow Through the Ceiling in Singapore

Located in a residential neighborhood near Singapore's main shopping street, the Elok House is a mirage. Leaves sprout from walls, floors yield to tall trees, and falling leaves collect on the kitchen floor, while the house's glass façade further dissolves the barrier between indoors and outdoors, urban and natural.

The Redwood Treehouse in New Zealand

By Anna Laurent

Looking for a gift idea for the arborist who has everything? Three years after its popular debut, a birdcage-shaped treehouse in a remote New Zealand redwood forest is for sale.

Gorgeous Garden Sheds from Chelsea Garden Show 2012

By Anna Laurent

As inspiration during the winter months while your garden sleeps and you prepare for spring, here are photos from the 2012 RHS Chelsea Garden Show's exhibit of "Artisan Retreats"—gorgeous garden sheds that bring the outside in, without even leaving the garden.

Links We Love, 6/19/12

By Anne Ichikawa

Today's links include an ingenious planter that self-waters, tips for throwing an outdoor party, and the Freedom Garden in Louisiana.

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.

Greenhouses

By Rachel Swaby

The greenhouse makes a comeback in some surprising places.

Art + Botany: Maher's Floral Motifs

By Anna Laurent

Thistles on the fireplace, poppies atop the columns, lilies in the windows—these are the organic designs that defined the style of Chicago architect George Washington Maher (1864-1926).

Links We Love, 12/15/11

By Ethan Cromwell Palmer

Igloo hotels, a malt factory transforms into an urban roof farm in Berlin, a mountain retreat in New Mexico, Apple's new campus, DIY Christmas decorations, a wild tree house with a drawbridge, and a proposed floating garden park for Taiwan.

Links We Love, 11/8/2011

By Claire Lui

Links we love include Menagerie, a new book of photographer Sharon Montrose's animal portraits (above), Chez Panisse menus, a tour of a green home in San Francisco, DIY chalkboard lamps made from old plastic planters, and an Art Nouveau poster of...Natalie Portman!

Botanic Notables: Acanthus

By Anna Laurent

A dramatic accent to modern-day gardens, Acanthus plants were also the inspiration for Corinthian columns, the art of William Morris, and mid-century motifs.