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Beth Dow's photographs of formal English and Italian gardens capture quiet moments that belie a garden's ever-humming life. In the Garden is a meditation on classic concepts of paradise and garden design, in which the photographer becomes a gardener, guiding the viewer's eye and creating a mood. She tells us a bit about some of her favorite photographs from In the Garden.

Miranda Lichtenstein's Screen Shadows

By Katie Mendelson

In artist Miranda Lichtenstein's new series of photographs, Screen Shadows, she photographs silhouettes of still lifes on patterned washi paper screens so the viewer only sees a representation of nature once removed.

In the Garden, by Stacy Bass

By Lise Funderburg

A review of Stacy Bass's new book, In the Garden, a portfolio of 18 luxurious Connecticut gardens.

Art & Botany: Ackroyd & Harvey's Living Photographs

By Anna Laurent

British artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey use grass to make pictures—"living" photographs. Wielding the traditional tools of the artist and the gardener to harness a plant's natural photosynthesis, the artists' process is a nice synthesis of art and science.

Art & Botany: Honour Hiers Photography

By Anna Laurent

Photographer Honour Hiers collects plants near her home in Western North Carolina, then presses the specimens and photographs them on a light table with 4x5 chrome film. Highlighting a plant's translucency and texture, the beautiful photographs portray familiar species in new ways. She began the Film Herbarium intending to collect all 2600 plant species in the region; she's since expanded the project to include native and non-native plants in and around the state.

The Natural Home and Bringing Nature Home

By Paul O'Donnell

With spring bringing flowers aplenty, gardeners again have the pleasure of readily available blooms begging to be brought indoors. Two books—The Natural Home and Bringing Nature Home—remind us that living with nature in the house takes many forms.

Art + Botany: Wave Hill's Wild Garden Exhibit

By Anna Laurent

Tending Toward the Untamed: Artists Respond to the Wild Garden is a collection of work that interprets the relationship between nature and the gardener as it grows at Wave Hill, a garden overlooking the Hudson River, in Bronx, New York. Our Q&A with Jennifer McGregor, Director of Arts and Senior Curator at Wave Hill.

Art + Botany: Fruiting Bodies

By Anna Laurent

In Fruiting Bodies, UK-based photographer Julia Claxton captures the beauty and mystery of common mushrooms.

Art + Botany: Shoe Fleur

By Anna Laurent

We talk with photographer Michel Tcherevkoff about his collection of imagined floral shoes, Shoe Fleur.

Art + Botany: Q&A with Photographer Lori Nix

By Anna Laurent

Photographer Lori Nix builds a post-apocalyptic city, in which human inhabitants have retreated, and nature has begun to creep in. We ask the artist about the plants that are reclaiming these transformed urban spaces.