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Art & Botany: "Out of Sync" Daffodils
By Anna Laurent
A large-scale installation in London features 10,000 daffodils made of clay and industrial materials. Out of Sync is the most recent project by Chilean artist Fernando Casasempere.
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Green | White | Anna Laurent | art + botany | clay | daffodil | exhibit | London | sculpture
Book Review: Garden Source
By Becca Bergman Bull
Our review of the new book of inspirational photos from well-known garden photographer Andrea Jones. 
Related Topics: Books | Brown | Green | building materials | England | inspiration | landscape design photos | London | Washington
Art + Botany: London's Traffic Light Tree
By Anna Laurent
Commissioned by the city of London to replace a dying sycamore tree, the Traffic Light Tree has 75 signals that bewilder birds and confuse motorists—doing everything but directing traffic. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Red | Yellow | Anna Laurent | art | art + botany | Design | England | London | sculpture | sycamore | Trees | urban
Art + Botany: Moss Art
By Anna Laurent
In the last several years, artists have reclaimed moss as a medium, creating site-specific installations to reclaim public spaces, and creating a new sort of growing, living graffiti.
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Anna Laurent | art + botany | Design | illustration | London | Moss | New York | public art | street art
Art + Botany: Japanese Panel Paintings at Kew
By Anna Laurent
A series of 19th-century Japanese tree panel paintings, currently on exhibit at London's Natural History Museum, depict each type of tree on a matching wood panel, combining taxonomy and art.
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Green | Anna Laurent | art botany | Japanese | Kew | London | Trees
National Gallery's Van Gogh Vertical Garden
By Alexia Nader
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Has London one-upped Paris when it comes to vertical gardens on museum walls? The National Gallery in London unveiled a vertical garden that is a living reproduction of Van Gogh's "A Wheatfield, with Cypresses," using 8,000 living plants of more than 26 varieties.
Related Topics: Ideas | Blue | Green | art | Design | London | museum | Public gardens | Travel | Vertical Gardens
Spontaneous City Bird Houses
By Claire Lui
The artist collective London Fieldworks has been creating fantastic bird houses since 2008, sculptures that draw from sources as diverse as 1960s public housing, dictator's palaces, and more.
Related Topics: Ideas | art | birdhouses | Design | London
Gardens & Nurseries in London
By Joanna Fortnam
Horticultural highlights for planning a trip to London
Related Topics: Places | Chelsea Flower Show | London | Plan your garden | Shops | Travel

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