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NYBG Orchid Show 2012: Patrick Blanc
By Claire Lui
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Photographs of this year's New York Botanical Garden orchid show, created by famous French vertical garden designer Patrick Blanc. Amazing colors in the middle of the dreary winter!
Related Topics: Dramatic | Green | Orange | Pink | Red | White | Plants | botanical gardens | flower show | new york botanical garden | orchids | Patrick Blanc | tropical plants | Vertical Gardens
Art + Botany: Ernst Haeckel
By Anna Laurent
Biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel introduced the term "ecology," and pursued his study of the natural world with a scientist's rigor and an artist's philosophy. He traveled around the world to find botanic specimens and illustrated them as perfect forms and unifying patterns. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Pink | Anna Laurent | art | art + botany | Art Nouveau | artist | illustration | orchids
Botanic Superlatives: The First Terrarium
By Anna Laurent
A physician by trade, botanic enthusiast, and accidental inventor, Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward devised the first terrarium in 1829, and thereby launched a new age of horticultural possibilities—where ferns and mosses would grow indoors, and tropical exotics would travel the world. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Anna Laurent | botanic superlatives | Design | ferns | invention | orchids | terrariums | Victorian

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