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Sea of Roses

In this movie that Dezeen filmed for trade show Garden Unique, British garden designer Andrew Wilson of Wilson McWilliam Studio talks about a few of his studio’s favourite projects, including a pathway cantilevered over an intense sea of roses.

Growing Wild

In Philadelphia, Going Green or Growing Wild? | NYTimes.......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.)...........“This is like a Garden of Eden,”

Flower Trickery

Jonathan Drori shows the extraordinary ways flowering plants -- over a quarter million species -- have evolved to attract insects to spread their pollen: growing 'landing-strips' to guide the insects in, shining in ultraviolet, building elaborate traps, and even mimicking other insects in heat. | Ted

Bluebell Paradise

Bluebells at Harcourt Arboretum by Clare Holt, Nice Tree Films The bluebell wood at Harcourt Arboretum is a real hidden gem of Oxfordshire, which unfurls its secrets every spring with an exquisite display of millions of flowers. The oak woodland provides the perfect habitat for the English Bluebell, and in this short film, Timothy Walker, the Director of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, tells us what it takes to make a bluebell happy, and why the Elizabethan fashion designers had a lot to thank this iconic wild flower for.

Leafsnap

Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and theSmithsonian Institution are working on visual recognition software to help identify species from photographs. Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed to demonstrate this new technology. This free mobile app helps identify tree species from photographs of their leaves and contains beautiful high-resolution images of their flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. Leafsnap currently includes the trees of New York City and Washington, D.C., and will soon grow to cover the trees of the entire continental United States.

Leafsnap turns users into citizen scientists, automatically sharing images, species identifications, and geo-coded stamps of species locations with a community of scientists who will use the stream of data to map and monitor the ebb and flow of flora nationwide.

Bed of Moss

Bed of Moss by Kurtis Hough

How Species Save Our Lives

The Madagascar periwinkle is a source of cancer drugs. P. Goltra www.ntbg.org

Given the untapped potential of the natural world, you might think governments and drug companies would be racing to save species and screen them for other such extraordinary powers. In fact, says James S. Miller, vice president for science at the New York Botanical Garden, “only a tiny percentage of the world’s plants have been screened,” and even those “have only been screened against a small fraction of the diseases for which they could be effective.” Instead, pharmacologically-active compounds developed over millions of years and found effective in the world’s harshest laboratory—nature—routinely vanish, as the species in which they evolved go extinct.................How Species Save Our Lives | NYTimes

Wearable Vegetables

Chives

Eggplant

Wearable Food Series by Yeonju Sung

Blue Poppy

Three young Tibetan women, trained as traditional doctors, leave their nomadic homeland for Scotland. What they learn at Edinburgh’s world-famous Royal Botanic Garden may help ensure the survival of Tibet’s medicinal plants. 25 mins 2008.| Sitar Rose

Prinzessinnengarten

Urban gardening: We spend a day on the farm in deepest Berlin to find out how urban agriculture is taking root in the German capital. | Monocle

San Fu Tie

San fu tie....plaster is impregnated with mixed herbs consisting of bai jie zi, xi xin, gan sui and xian mou (white mustard seeds, wild ginger, euphorbia and lemon grass) and attached to acupuncture points on the neck or back. According to TCM, the medicine is then said to infiltrate through the meridian points, regulating energy and blood circulation and adjusting yin and yang.from Plaster masters dog day disasters

Talking Tree

talking-tree.com A 100 year old tree, living on the edge of Brussels, was hooked up to a fine dust meter, ozone meter, light meter, weatherstation, webcam and microphone. This equipment constantly measures the tree’s living circumstances. And translates this information into human language. Then, the tree lets the world know how he feels.

Tea for Gardeners

Making Tea From Plants Grown in the Backyard | NYTimes

Every pollen grain has a story

Every pollen grain has a story Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes -- and travels remarkably well. Jonathan Drori gives an up-close glimpse of these fascinating flecks of plant courtship | Ted

Liquid Salad

Bloody Mary, the Liquid Salad

The bloody mary bridges the speakeasy and the herb garden; it’s a liquid salad into which you can not only pour pretty much any kind of base alcohol you like but also sprinkle parsley, basil or cilantro, and, while you’re at it, cram in hunks of vegetables, usually pickled, of many types.........with tomato season almost upon us, this is an excellent time of year to figure out which bloody is your bloody and to ponder the riddle of a drink at once nutritious and naughty, packed with vitamins and vice. | NYTimes