“Along the way you see a plant – by bringing them home you give them an opportunity to express themselves. Sometimes they are a little bit lost in this craziness that is nature, but when you take one single stem and bring it home you see it differently.”
- French flower farmer Clément Bouteille
Every week we bring you the best plant and gardening content from every corner of the internet.
Links to help you relax, learn, laugh, and go green.
In Volume. 004 a Japanese garden takes root on a train, we explore Britain's forgotten rainforests, Salomon get mossy, notes on Marly's partnership with Life House Hotels, and a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Copenhagen is hiring a head gardener.
Plus, much, much more.
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THINGS THAT HAVE MADE US SMILE THIS WEEK
🌱 Nature always finds a way - via @pandorapl4nt on IG
🌱 A French flower farmer’s philosophies on life and connecting with nature - via Nowness
🌱 A Japanese garden on a train - via YouTube
🌱 The gardener's walking stick - via Design Boom
🌱 Corona’s ‘natural billboard’ uses sunlight to create the shape of its bottle - via @howeverthingworks on IG
EXPLORING THE NATURAL WORLD
🌱 Christian Cassiel takes us on a mesmerizing journey into Britain’s forgotten rainforests - via Atmos
🌱 ‘Solar-powered vacuum cleaners’: the native plants that could clean toxic soil - via The Guardian
🌱 How plant intelligence can soothe climate anxiety - via Scientific American
🌱 'Chaos Gardening' is the low-maintenance way to grow flowers all season - via Real Simple
🌱 A guide to getting better at gardening by using the newly updated USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map - via NPR
GARDENCORE
🌱 Ted Baker partners with Brooklyn Botanic Garden on capsule collection, featuring Plant Doctor and friend of Marly, Maryah Green - via Women’s Wear Daily
🌱 Salomon XT-6 Moss edition - via gorpcoretex on IG
ART AND DESIGN
🌱 Documenting Ridgewood’s Abandoned Tree Beds - Alexa Hoyer captures the remnants of tree trunks in the Queens neighborhood in accidentally artistic tableaux - via Hyper Allergic
🌱 A Grass Covered Home designed by Reinhold Weichlbauer & Albert Josef Ortis of Weichlbauer Ortis Architects in Frohnleiten, Austria - via @merit_la on IG
🌱 "Forests could be at the heart of our society again" - via Dezeen
🌱 This Storybook cottage’s native plant wonderland shows how gorgeous no grass can be - via LA Times
EATING AND DRINKING
🌱 Zest is Seoul’s pioneering Bar of Tomorrow and champion of sustainability - via Time Out
🌱 Pack your bags, you’re moving to Copenhagen. Noma restaurant is taking
applications for a new head gardener - via @nomacph on IG
🌱 “If you can’t beat them, eat them” - Why foraging for invasive plants is good for you, and the planet - via The Boston Globe
MARLY UPDATES
🌱 Life House x Marly: Creating a Desert Oasis. Exploring our partnership with a hotel chain designing with environment, geography, and local history firmly in mind - via the Marly Journal
🌱 We’re teaming up with Sunday Sessions & Plant Passenger for a very special live figure drawing event on Sunday, April 21st. Located at ODR Studios in Newark, NJ. Grab a ticket here! - via Sunday Sessions & ODR Studios
🌱 Marly's biggest ever sale is now live! - Buy one planter, get a second 30% OFF + FREE SHIPPING on all US orders! Get your plants summer ready with our beautiful, stackable, self-watering planters. Enter code at checkout: MARLYSPRING
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