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Monet's Garden in the Nolen Glasshouses by <a href="https://vimeo.com/41376565">The New York Botanical Garden</a>TheO Gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01975548122081952059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306107037660705655.post-10651036804246120652011-12-10T23:06:00.001-05:002011-12-10T23:10:02.840-05:00Orchid Breeders<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="338" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/33393102?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=62623B" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="600"></iframe><br />
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Orchid Breeders at the World Orchid Convention in Singapore <a href="http://vimeo.com/33393102"><b>BEST IN SHOW</b> by Li-Anne Huang</a>TheO Gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01975548122081952059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306107037660705655.post-81965934681300685062011-12-10T22:49:00.001-05:002011-12-10T22:53:09.982-05:00Frankincense<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Boswellia. The holiest plant of the Christmas season............. a cross between aspirin, penicillin, Xanax and Viagra, with a touch of duct tape and magic. </i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/garden/replicating-the-slightly-plantable-gifts-of-the-magi-in-the-garden.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hpw"><b>Frankincense Fit for a King</b> | NYTimes</a>TheO Gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01975548122081952059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306107037660705655.post-806564016472355592011-11-07T08:42:00.000-05:002011-11-07T08:50:40.447-05:00Painting Prospect<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New Work by Frank Meuschke<br />
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Paintings are mostly representations of Prospect Park as Frank, also a New York based garden blogger, <a href="http://nycgarden.blogspot.com/2011/11/painting-prospect.html">explains</a> on his blog. More <a href="http://nycgarden.blogspot.com/2011/11/nose-to-oil.html">previews </a>here.</div>
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The concept for this year’s Pavilion at the <a href="http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/04/serpentine_gallery_pavillion_2011_zumthor.html">Serpentine Gallery</a> is the hortus conclusus, a contemplative room, a garden within a garden. One enters the building from the lawn and begins the transition into the central garden, a place abstracted from the world of noise and traffic and the smells of London – an interior space within which to sit, to walk, to observe the flowers. Pavillion by architect Peter Zumthor and garden by Piet Oudolf<br />
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Long preoccupied with technology, David Hockney is exploring a new artistic medium that uses high-definition cameras, screens, software, and moving images to capture the experience of seeing.....using a special rig, holding 9 high-definition cameras, to view and photograph nature scenes, simulating and expanding the experience of (the) human eye(s) and cameras | <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38393/?p1=featured">MIT Technology Review</a>TheO Gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01975548122081952059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306107037660705655.post-8834117207258549742011-08-12T02:35:00.000-05:002011-08-12T02:35:19.778-05:00Sea of Roses<iframe frameborder="0" height="335" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/27400275?title=0&byline=0&color=57597f" width="600"></iframe><br />
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<b>In Philadelphia, Going Green or Growing Wild?</b> | <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/garden/in-philadelphia-a-garden-grows-wild.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hpw">NYTimes</a>.<i>......her yard (almost 7,500 square feet) is forest and shrubs. She rarely waters, except her tiny vegetable patch, and a few shrubs during drought. Rainwater is funneled off the roof into the landscape....... To tame her forest, she found a gardener who understood that. Together they have coppiced, or pruned to four feet, the black cherry trees, creating a hedgelike thicket facing the street. Young oaks have been pruned to resemble open-branched shrubs.........She has ignored the don’t-plant-one-of-everything rule. (Designers are supposed to plant in sweeps and repetitions.)...........</i><i>“This is like a Garden of Eden,”</i>TheO Gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01975548122081952059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306107037660705655.post-42503287819995541352011-07-17T03:12:00.001-05:002011-07-17T03:12:29.802-05:00Flower Trickery<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YmVZ8zXJO48" width="640"></iframe><br />
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Overnight sleeper from Kuala Lumpur close to arriving in Johor Bahru.TheO Gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01975548122081952059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306107037660705655.post-61374252030507767512011-03-05T21:30:00.000-05:002011-03-05T21:30:08.534-05:00How Species Save Our Lives<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Bird of Paradise family<br />
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