Hiro China San poetic vegetal memories (Japanization.org coverage)

Hiro China San confie aux arbres et avec beaucoup de poésie, les souvenirs dont ils ont été les témoins silencieux...

Root system domestication

Diana Scherer elaborates on the roots system adaptation and merges it with our culture in a very classy style! Here fantastic website here

Masahiko Kimura, a revolutionary Bonsaï Master

Kimura San was the first Bonsaï artist to break the 'naturalistic' tradition and achieve more extreme 'human influenced' shapes. His vision involved the use of modern powertools to shape Deadwood parts on Bonsaïs, mainly Juniper trees. His genius is now widely recognized in the Bonsaï World where he a is considered a living legend.

I've never seen such a wonderful Bonsai, artificially harmonized rocks and trees. I met Mr. Masahiko Kimura accidentally in this museum. There were some fans from Canada, Netherland and some other places. This showed his fame was spreading all over the world.

More pictures here  

...and a very interesting explanation of Kimura's vision by his US student, Ryan Neil

...the border between the tree and the artist nature in the artwork and the related design humility is central in this modern approach to Bonsaï art. But Ghostwood doesn't come from the Bonsaï world, we can't do real Bonsaï and have no real experience there. Here, trees don't need to 'look old' and 'imitate nature', they just need to 'look good', even with more anthropomorphic criterias. It is definitely a less noble approach, but definetely a post modern one risen from our urban lives and the fun of sharing Primitive human art (at first) to the Plant.

Klaus Kemp uses micro organisms to draw beautifull glasswork Mandalas

THE DIATOMIST is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when viewed under magnification.The best of these arrangements are stunning technical feats that reveal the hidden grandeur of some of the smallest organisms on Earth. Klaus Kemp has devoted his entire life to understanding and perfecting diatom arrangement and he is now acknowledged as the last great practitioner of this beautiful combination of art and science. THE DIATOMIST showcases his incredible work. Soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bernard Herrmann and Cults Percussion Ensemble. MATTHEW KILLIP is an English filmmaker living in New York. His documentaries have been broadcast on UK television and exhibited in festivals including Sundance and True/False.

Aquarium Landscapers are true wonder makers

..and here are the 2015 World Championship Winners !!

David Robinson is a MUSHROOM OBSESSIVE

...and uses living fungus to create amazing dark&psychedelic stories in his luminography room...

"The Mushroom Picker", http://www.artbook.com/9781900828413.html

.D..he also makes sandwiches there : 

Walter Mason's Fall Land Art

Mr Mason like to borrow, modify and replace elements in Nature... and he does that with style 

Access to his Flickr Galery HERE

Plants know when they are being eaten...

...and freak out !

Previous studies have suggested that plant growth can be influenced by sound and that plants respond to wind and touch. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri, in a collaboration that brings together audio and chemical analysis, have determined that plants respond to the sounds that caterpillars make when eating plants and that the plants respond with more defenses.

Tree's Shyness

Real picture shot in Buenos Aires (Author unknown)

More info there : 
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timidit%C3%A9_(botanique)

Double-decker Living Bridge

...north east India, this summer (photo by the mighty Rahul Badwar ^*^)

Sam Van Aken created the '40 fruits Tree'

 ...a splendid artistic project based on extensive grafting !!

http://www.rt.com/usa/310723-magical-art-hybrid-tree/

Beverly Salas Incredible Banana Art

I started drawing on bananas a while back because I love the texture and I love how smooth the ink goes on a banana! haha Anyways, feel free to check out my instagram: @BeverlySalas and check out the hashtag #bananabev with other bananas I've drawn on!

https://instagram.com/beverlysalas/

Baraka, Ron Fricke's beautifully haunting masterpiece

...filled with many Dead Can Dance tracks

The legendary opening scene to Baraka

Jodi Colella's mushroomed trees

http://www.jodicolella.com/jodicolella.com/mushroomed.html