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Links We Love 11/13/2012

A balloon bridge, DIY gold planters, tropical fruits in the Golden State, beeswax and graphite drawings, and more in today’s Links We Love.

Heronswood Sold to Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe

By Claire Lui

The Hersonswood nursery garden has been sold to the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, which had its ancestral land on the garden's property. The tribe will preserve the historic gardens and educate the members and public about native plants.

Heronswood for Sale, Again

By Claire Lui

Heronswood, the famed garden and nursery in the Pacific Northwest, founded by Dan Hinkley, is up for sale again, for $749,000, with the deadline for sealed bids ending tomorrow. A photographic tour of one of the country's great gardens and plant collections.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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