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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. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | art | chia pets | crazy plant trend of the day | Nashville | sculptures | wheat grass
Crazy Plant Trend of the Day: Japanese Wisteria Tunnel
By Claire Lui
Photographs of some of the amazing wisteria tunnels in Japan. The wisteria festivals, or fuji matsurii, which come after the cherry blossom festivals, generally from mid-April to late May, have been an event for centuries, inpsiring poetry and woodcuts in Japanese culture. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Pink | Purple | White | crazy plant trend of the day | festivals | Japan | Japanese | Vines | wisteria
Links We Love, 4/9/12
By Claire Lui
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. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Green | chickens | crazy plant trend of the day | dyes | links | links we love | planters | plants
String Gardens
By Claire Lui
Images of Dutch artist Fedor Van der Valk's string gardens, featuring plants in bloom from throughout the year.
Related Topics: Ideas | Blue | Green | Pink | White | Dramatic | crazy plant trend of the day | Netherlands | plants | string gardens | unusual
Botanic Notables: Extraordinary Christmas Trees
By Anna Laurent
A selection of extraordinary Christmas trees throughout the world—most are local traditions, many are breaking records, and one appears to break through a suburban roof.  


 

Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Red | White | Anna Laurent | botanic notables | christmas | crazy plant trend of the day | holiday | record-breaking | superlative | Travel | Trees
Links We Love, 12/7/2011
By Ethan Cromwell Palmer
Bikers race through the streets with plants on their heads (above), the 2012 International Landscape Design Award competition is now open, a Lego tree house, succulent ornaments, Patrick Blanc's vertical gardens, the Windowfarms Project, clothing that grows, the underground "Low-Line" park, and the online release of the urban planning documentary Urbanized.
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Red | crazy plant trend of the day | link roundup | links | links we love | news
Homecoming Mums: A Texas Tradition
By Claire Lui
In honor of football and chrysanthemum season, we bow before a floral tradition specific to Texas: homecoming mums. 
Related Topics: Contemporary | Blue | White | Yellow | corsages | crazy plant trend of the day | culture | History | Texas
Art + Botany: Rice Paddy Illustrations
By Anna Laurent
It takes a village to grow a picture in a rice field: Since 1993, a small Japanese village has been creating rice paddy art, in an effort to increase tourism.  It's a hybrid of traditional illustration and crop circles, with canvases that are as large as football fields.  
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Green | White | Yellow | Anna Laurent | art + botany | crazy plant trend of the day | farming | illustration | Japan | rice
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.
Related Topics: Container gardening | Brown | Green | Container gardening | crazy plant trend of the day | plants
Crazy Plant Trend of the Day: Window Box Car Bumper
By Claire Lui
A man who turned his car's bumper into a window box!
Related Topics: Ideas | Container gardening | crafts | crazy plant trend of the day | DIY | plants | window box
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