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The furniture collection below is by London based designer Asif Khan who used freeze-dried flowers from a common plant found around London – Gypsophila. The collection is called ‘Harvest’ and it was a part of the Designers in Residence program at the Design Museum London.

Where can I get these bottles? So many succulents in one place My living room is starting to resemble this one… especially since I got home from the flower show.This floral display was a bit left of centre, not as pretty as others but so much more interesting. Now to find out more about Ceclia

Karin Nussbaumer’s photography is about creating stories. “My imagination takes me to places that are not easy to find in real life so I create them”. His work is often a collaboration with Frank Visser from studio IJM – the creative collective based in the Netherlands where I found Fedor’s String Gardens. The dreamy photographs

String Gardens by Fedor van der Valk started two years ago as an IJM project (a creative collective based in Amsterdam). The beautiful objects below are a variation of Kokedama – a Japanese art where plants are covered with moss and placed in a bowl. The objective of Fedor’s String Gardens is to bring plants

Nienke Sybrandy is a Netherlands based artist who’s works arise from observations of daily life. Many of her works feature elements of nature as shown here, with more on her website. All text and images below are from http://www.nsybrandy.nl/ Natural ingredients improve the quality of personal grooming products. They refer to beauty and health and

How can we do something similar with bananas?

Behind the beach In the rainforest

Azuma Makoto is a Japanese rock musician turned florist come artist. He has exhibited works in Tokyo, Paris, Milan and New York to name a few and he runs his own boutique flower shop in Tokyo’s Ginza district called ‘Jardins Des Fleurs’ http://www.jardinsdesfleurs.com/ Pictures from azumamakoto.com and his blog http://amkk.blog.so-net.ne.jp/

Helmut Smits is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in The Netherlands. Nature and plant life is a recurring theme in many of his sculpture and commissioned pieces. Title: Football stadiumYear: 2002Materials: fruit crate boxes, fruit, wood, stands, halogen work lights, grass carpetDimensions:L 450 cm W 350 cm H 170 cm photo: Madeleine Heijmans Title: Football

The home made compost gives Jade a home The calm before the storm. 2pm Saturday March 6

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