Competition: we have teamed up with The Architecture Foundation in London to give away five copies of their book Union Street Urban Orchard, which charts the transformation of a disused London plot into a public garden. More about Competition: five copies of Urban Orchard to be won
London designer Nick Fraser presents these faceted terracotta plant pots at Clerkenwell Design Week in London this week. More about Herb by Nick Fraser
Dezeen archive: following our story on Offecct's collection for incorporating plants in design this week here's a selection of stories from the Dezeen archives featuring plants, flowers and seeds. See all the stories »
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Stockholm 2011: designers including Claesson Koivisto Rune, Front, Jean-Marie Massaud and Luca Nichetto presented furniture for incorporating plants into office spaces for Swedish brand Offecct at Stockholm Furniture Fair this month. More about Oasis by Claesson Koivisto Rune, Luca Nichetto Jean-Marie Massaud and Front for Offecct
British digital designer Daniel Brown has created a website for fashion brand Mulberry where users can email a unique image of a flower to their valentine. More about Love Blossoms by Daniel Brown for Mulberry
Dutch company OAT have designed a range of biodegradable shoes with seeds embedded in the tongues. More about The Virgin Collection by OAT
Designer Ignacio Canales Aracil created these sculptures by pressing and drying wild flowers. More about The Fragility of Time by Ignacio Canales Aracil
This algae-producing tower designed by Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham of London studio CRAB came second in the recent Taiwan Tower Conceptual International Competition. More about The Tower of Droplets by Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham
British artist Mark Merer has completed this pointy studio for himself and his wife in Somerset, UK. More about Welham Studio by Mark Merer
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has covered the floor of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London with more than 100 million individually handmade replica sunflower seeds. More about Sunflower Seeds 2010 by Ai Weiwei
London designer Roger Arquer has designed this vase with a funnel protruding from the side so that the water to be changed without removing the flowers. More about Funnel Vase by Roger Arquer
A spiralling concrete slide connects the kitchen and child's bedroom of this family house near Jakarta designed by Indonesian architects Aboday and photographed by Happy Lim. More about Playhouse by Aboday
This residential building in Copenhagen with sloping green roofs by Danish architects BIG will be completed in October, and has just won the 2010 Scandinavian Green Roof Award. More about 8 House by BIG
American landscape architect Heather Ring of the Wayward Plant Registry has transformed a disused site in Bankside, London, into a public garden with the introduction of apple trees, allotments, a timber pavilion, and a table-tennis table in a skip. More about Union Street Urban Orchard by Heather Ring
This building for Tokyo by Japanese architects Geneto will be cloaked in steel mesh with ivy growing over it. More about Ivy Building by Geneto
Oslo architects PUSHAK have installed an indoor terrain of moss arches and screens for the London Festival of Architecture, which opened last weekend. More about Moss Your City by PUSHAK
DMY Berlin 2010: design collective Pour les Alpes will present multi-faceted wooden plant pots at the DMY International Design Festival taking place in Berlin next week. More about Crystal Collection by Pour les Alpes
This earth and plant-covered hump is a house by Paris architect Patrick Nadeau, currently under construction in Reims, France. More about La Maison-vague by Patrick Nadeau
Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has designed a conceptual transport system that would involve airships powered by seaweed. More about Hydrogenase by Vincent Callebaut
Designer David Bowen has created a machine that scans an onion and makes a model of it every 24 hours. More about Growth Modeling Device by David Bowen