June 6, 2024
Category: Container Gardening, Education & Tours, Experiencing, Garden Design, Garden Tourism, Public Gardens, Travel
Tags: art installations, botanical art, Girona, Spain, Temps de Flors Festival
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June 26, 2015
For his installation, Iced Flowers, botanical artist Makota Azuma encapsulated flowers within large blocks of ice, as if they were frozen in time. When the ice melted, the preserved flowers in a way bloomed again, a nod to nature’s life … Read More...
Category: Creating, Garden Art
Tags: botanical art, botanical sculpture, floral art, flowers, Japan, Japanese design
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August 4, 2013
Like the nearby open fields where La Calendula’s owner-chef Iolanda Bustos forages for flowers and herbs, her restaurant’s exposed kitchen resembles a verdant theater in the round, a center stage surrounded by the colorful bounty she gathers every day between … Read More...
Category: Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens
Tags: botanical art, botanical cuisine, botanical gastronomy, calendula, catalan cuisine, edible flowers, foraged flowers, foraged food, foraged herbs, Girona, marigold, Spain
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Gustav Eiffel’s Pont de le Peixateries Velles over Onyar river. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton.
