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Links We Love, 4/18/12
By Claire Lui
Re-growing your own celery, mirrored vases to show off one special flower stem, $6,000 melons, and more in today's Links We Love. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Purple | Red | Container gardening | How-To | links | links we love | news | products | vases | vegetables
Botanic Notables: Return of the American Chestnut
By Anna Laurent
The American chestnut tree has dominated Eastern forests for centuries, but it almost disappeared when a foreign blight was introduced in 1904. Scientists have been trying to breed blight-resistant trees and recently planted several at the New York Botanical Garden, just steps from the blight's origins over one hundred years ago. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Green | Anna Laurent | blight | botanic notables | chestnut | new york botanical garden | news | plants | science | 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
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
By Claire Lui
Far up north in Arctic, like Superman's Fortress of Solitude, is Norway's ultimate seed bank. Built to withstand any disaster, the seed bank was designed to store seeds from around the world. 
Related Topics: Ideas | White | news | Norway | photographs | seed banks
Links We Love, 6/23/2011
By Claire Lui
The recent boom in vegetable gardens, Gothamist's new Green Thumb series, and Curbed's outdoor week, in today's link roundup.
Related Topics: Ideas | links | links we love | news
Growing Salad in Outer Space
By Claire Lui
A Japanese astronaut, a Russian astronaut, and an American astronaut blasted into space today (no, not the beginning of a joke) and they are planning on growing plants...in space! Satoshi Furukawa (pictured) is going to grow cucumbers and his fellow astronaut, Sergei Volkov, will be growing tomatoes, to test the effect of growing plants in a gravity-free environment. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Growing edibles | news | vegetables
Jasmine, a Revolutionary Flower
By Claire Lui
The New York Times reports on how China has banned all mention and selling of jasmine, for fear of revolution. (Even poetry about jasmine has been banned.) Rural jasmine growers, unaware of the controversy, are left with falling prices on their unsold plants.
Related Topics: Places | china | crazy plant trend of the day | flowers | jasmine | news | politics
Farmer Favorites for 2011
By Elissa Altman
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We poll six farmers about what new vegetables they are most excited about bringing to their customers this year.
Related Topics: Vegetables and Fruits | Cooking | farm to table | Farmers market | fruits | news | vegetables
Links We Love 3/6/11
By Claire Lui
Links that have caught our eye recently include: Jay-Z's new lifestyle site, First Lady Michelle Obama to write a gardening book, a time-lapse film of a lily unfurling, and a profile of Judy Kameon.
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Links We Love
By Claire Lui
In this week's link roundup, we look at beautiful seed packets; unusual planters; Annie Proulx, garden-writer-turned-novelist; and a Louisiana island filled with camellias.
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