Flowering Transition by Marcin Rusak

For his graduation project, Royal College of Art student Marcin Rusak created an installation exploring flowers, including a vase made of petals and a series of scents comparing the strong smell of flowers from a garden to the weaker scents of those sold at a florist or a supermarket.

GROW: The contemporary garden fair

Opening to the public tomorrow on London's Hampstead Heath, new contemporary garden fair GROW will bring together 100 carefully selected exhibitors selling plants, furniture and gardening accessories.

Backing British farmers and growers: Live from RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2014

For the fourth year running, Waitrose and the National Farmer's Union have collaborated on a stand that celebrates both horticulture and agriculture at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. For this year's display, the companies have been inspired by the extreme climate change; designer Penny Riley explains, "We wanted to highlight the problems growers endured with the flooding."

Chelsea Flower Show-inspired menus

Tom's Kitchen. Photo by David Griffen Photography

Next week's RHS Chelsea Flower Show has inspired two restaurateurs to launch special menus inspired by the show's beautiful horticultural displays.

Tom's Kitchen has created a light and floral menu that includes crab with basil mayonnaise, cucumber and nasturtium leaf; cod with apricot rose and saffron; and courgette and pistachio risotto with courgette flowers.

The Urban Gin Garden at Clerkenwell Design Week

Portal restaurant on St John Street will be turned into an urban gin garden for Clerkenwell Design Week this year, which runs 20th to 22nd May. The garden will include a special installation by multimedia artist Lauren Baker, a grow-your-own cocktail workshop and mini garden fair hosted by Grow London, and tasting workshops by British gin brand Sipsmith.

Think Ink: black roses for Valentine's Day

A pop-up florist specialising in black roses, tulips and lilies opened this morning outside London's Kingly Court, offering bouquets of flowers coloured with black ink in return for donations to charity.

Seasonal gifting 2014 at Waitrose: flowers and food

Supermarket brand Waitrose previewed its seasonal food and gifting ranges for 2014 last week, including mallow hearts for Valentine's Day, Danish twists for Easter and frilly tulip bouquets with platters of Yumdoughs for Mother's Day.

Pumpkin Parade at Kew Gardens

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is celebrating the Halloween and Thanksgiving season with a colourful Pumpkin Parade. A feast of different types, colours, shapes and sizes of pumpkin have been on display at the London gardens, arranged into pyramid totems and rainbow-coloured fields.

Polux Fleuriste at All Good Things, New York

Polux Fleuriste is located at the front of food hall All Good Things in New York. As you walk past, an abundance of lush green foliage and monochromatically arranged flowers catch your eye.

Floral Friday Competition: creative uses of Instagram

Photo by @annettabosakova

Emily Quinton of The Startup Wife blog started the Floral Friday competition on Instagram as a way of engaging fans of flowers, while at the same time building up an ever-changing moodboard of gorgeous blooms created by the Instagram community.

Live from Spoga+Gafa 2013: Cologne in full bloom

Thinking Hands at Spoga + Gafa 2013

This year at Cologne's Spoga+Gafa trade fair we saw a growing number of companies and designers addressing the needs of the urban garden and gardener, as well as new ‘glowing’ ideas for furniture to light up to create mood and atmosphere.

FlowerTrap by Utopia and Utility

FlowerTrap by Utopia and Utility is a lens-like vessel that heightens the beauty of the blooms placed inside it. Each vase is unique and combines blown glass with a birch bark-weaved base.

Gardens of sensations in Chaumont

Ruban Rouge by Yu Kongjian - Photo by E.Sander

The 22nd International Garden Festival, in Chaumont sur Loire, France, is this year focusing on feelings and sensations. Landscape artists and garden designers from all over the world were asked to work on the subject and stimulate all of the visitor's senses, by building surprising gardens. 

The 'Ruban Rouge' garden (Red Ribbon) by Chinese designer Yu Kongjian encourages contemplation and rest.

The Secret Garden at Hampton Court

London-based garden designers Katerina Rafaj and Jens Haendeler have incorporated augmented reality into the garden with The Secret Garden, an installation at Hampton Court Flower Show 2013. The image of an ivy-covered brick wall serves as a base to reveal an undiscovered world when ones holds an iPad in front of it.

Tip of the Iceberg at Hampton Court

John Esling and Caroline Tait stacked Zanussi fridges and freezers to form this giant iceberg installation at the Hampton Court Flower Show 2013. The conceptual garden re-evaluates landfill waste and creatively transforms unwanted white goods into planters.

Rose of the Year 2014 at Hampton Court

Lady Marmalade (Hartiger) has been announced Rose of the Year 2014 at the Rose and Floristry Vintage Festival held at Hampton Court. The sweet scented cabbage-style blooms are bred by Harkness Roses.

Paper architecture by Procédés Chénel

French manufacturer Procédés Chénel specialises in decorative solutions for exhibition spaces, events or interior architecture, made solely out of paper. The brand recently launched a Hanging Gardens collection, complete with leafy paper garlands and pleated fruits, in bright summery colours.  

Iris by Santa Maria Novella for Villa La Massa

Set on the banks of Arno river in Tuscany, the grand Villa La Massa has been the inspiration for a new home fragrance by Officina Profumo Farmaceutica di Santa Maria. The fragrance reflects the characteristics of the villa with a floral aroma enhanced by fresh citrus scents and softened with Rosa x centifolia and ylang-ylang.

Miniature gardens by Roxanne Chu

Graduate designer Roxanne Chu has created a collection of jewellery that contains miniature cacti, plants and twigs, so that the wearer can carry around their own tiny garden.

Flower decor at L'Art du Jardin

Truffaut at L'Art du Jardin

The boundaries between indoor and outdoor are very much blurred at this year's edition of L'Art du Jardin in Paris' Grand Palais. Furniture is covered in fresh cut flowers or taken out into the vegetable patch to create cosy garden room sets. Plants seem to take over, creating fairytale sceneries and scenographies.