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Botanic Notables: The Cypress Guitar
By Anna Laurent
Landscaped entirely out of cypress and eucalyptus, the enormous guitar is one Argentine farmer's love letter to his late wife, a young woman who loved the guitar.
Related Topics: Ideas | Blue | Brown | Green | Argentina | botanic notables | cypress | Design | eucalyptus | plants | Travel | Trees | tribute
Links We Love, 2/14/2012
By Claire Lui
Abandoned Christmas trees as art, a CSA of plants to use as dyes, and our style director's terrarium is chosen as Best Home Accessory by Wallpaper* magazine, in today's link roundup.
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | art | dyes | link roundup | links | links we love | terrariums | Trees | websites
Botanic Notables: The Lone Cypress
By Anna Laurent
Monterey's famous Lone Cypress is one of the most photographed trees in the United States, and has become emblematic of the California Coast. Its image is also copyrighted, which brings up interesting questions about the legal images of nature.
Related Topics: Ideas | Blue | Brown | Green | Anna Laurent | botanic notables | California | cypress | monterey | Trees
Art + Botany: Haute Holiday Trees
By Anna Laurent
Designers around the world have created whimsical Christmas trees inspired by lotus flowers, French macarons, and children's story books. Check out this assortment of unusual trees around the world.
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Pink | Red | White | Yellow | Anna Laurent | art botany | christmas | Christmas trees | Design | holiday | hotel | Travel | Trees
Botanic Notables: Extraordinary Christmas Trees
By Anna Laurent
A selection of extraordinary Christmas trees throughout the world—most are local traditions, many are breaking records, and one appears to break through a suburban roof.  


 

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Prefab Mirror Cube Treehotel
By Claire Lui
Sweden's Treehotel has a number of different tree houses to rent by the night and one of the coolest is the Mirror Cube, which disappears into its surroundings. A prefab version of it is now available for sale, complete with installation.
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Green | hotels | prefab | Sweden | Travel | tree houses | Trees
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
Botanic Notables: The Immortal Underground Forest
By Anna Laurent
In South Africa's coastal grasslands, to explore a forest is to walk along its canopy—indeed, it's the only way to observe an extraordinary group of so-called underground trees, where only the uppermost leaves and branches are visible. Tucked away and protected from so many environmental threats, they underground forests are considered all but immortal, with estimated ages of 13,000 years or more. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Green | Orange | adaptation | Africa | anna laurent malsberger | botanic notables | Fire | old | science | Trees | unusual
Botanic Notables: Chêne Chappelle (Chapel Oak)
By Anna Laurent
We've all seen neat tree houses, but did you know that there's a tree church? In France, the Chêne Chappelle (Chapel Oak) is 800 years old, houses two tiny chapels in its hollow trunk, and was said to have been visited by William the Conqueror himself.
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Anna Laurent | botanic notables | France | History | oaks | Trees
Botanic Notables: Welwitschia Mirabilis
By Anna Laurent
A desert plant, the Welwitschia mirabilis is beloved among botanists who seek the very old and the very strange. It's a living fossil that survives in the desert, neither a typical succulent or a cactus, and neither a shrub nor a bush. It has been named a dwarf tree, and a director of the Royal Botanic Gardens once described it as "the most wonderful plant ever brought to this country, and the very ugliest."
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