From a child offering a daisy in Italy to massive blooms wrapping entire buildings in New Jersey and Belfast, this collection highlights how artists use flowers to tell tender, bold, and often playful stories across urban landscapes. You’ll find hyperreal murals, natural integrations, and surreal compositions scattered across Europe and the Americas.

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1. I Give You A Flower — Cosimo “Cheone” Caiffa in Porto Viro, Italy

A hyperrealistic 3D mural of a young child in a blue cap and sunglasses extending a daisy toward the viewer. The child appears to step out of the wall, offering a lifelike gesture of innocence. More by Cheone!: 23 Amazing 3D Murals by CHEONE!

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2. Immersed in Wildflowers — Krzysztof Bitka in Szczecin, Poland

A softly textured mural of a woman crouching in a meadow, surrounded by tall grasses, dandelions, and wildflowers. Blends realism with sketch-like overlay. More photos here!

3. Blue Petals — Studio Giftig in Belfast, Northern Ireland

A photorealistic mural of a woman surrounded by swirling flax flowers painted in vibrant blue and violet hues. The background is a soft lavender brick wall. More photos here!

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4. Flower Crown — Fabio Gomes Trindade in Trindade, Brazil

A portrait of a smiling girl is paired with an actual bougainvillea tree that serves as her voluminous hair, merging paint and nature seamlessly. More by Fabio!: How Fábio Gomes Turns Trees into Hair: Stunning Murals in Trindade (8 Photos)

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5. Wall of Color — Jenna Morello in Atlantic City, USA

A vivid mural wraps an entire building façade with oversized flowers in shades of red, pink, yellow, purple, and orange. The colors stand out against the neutral urban surroundings. More photos here!

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6. Coral Peonies — KORALLPIONEN in Frauenfeld, Switzerland

Towering pink and white peonies bloom on a residential building’s facade. Tall stems and large leaves climb upward, painted with botanical detail and vertical flow.

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7. Field Bloom — Street Artist KOHIN in Nebraska, USA

A horizontal mural depicting a field of yellow, white, and purple wildflowers blooming against a dark red wall. The work features clean lines and botanical detail. See it all here!

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8. Flowers for West Town — in Chicago, USA

Painted on a brick corner building, this mural includes sunflowers, roses, peonies, and a red admiral butterfly. Realistic shadows and color give it a grounded feel. More photos here!

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9. Gentiana Lutea — Mona Caron in Le Locle, Switzerland

A towering yellow gentian plant stretches across the full height of a concrete apartment building. The work is cleanly rendered in a botanical illustration style.

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10. Face in Bloom — Artist Unknown in Paleokastritsa, Corfu, Greece

This piece merges a painted face of a woman with live bougainvillea growing from the building wall, with the flowering branches shaped into flowing hair.

11. Free take one! A little bit of Sunshine

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9 Sculptures You (Probably) Didn’t Know Existed

From a 50-foot Native American monument overlooking the Missouri River to a surreal hammock strung across a border fence, these sculptures push the boundaries of form, meaning, and public space. Whether constructed from stone, steel, wire, or illusion, each work defies convention — and chances are, you haven’t seen them before. Locations span from Barcelona to Philadelphia, from South Dakota plains to Turkish landscapes.

More: 8 Inspiring Sculptures Seamlessly Integrated with Nature

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1. Melancholy — Albert György in Geneva, Switzerland

This bronze sculpture of a seated figure appears hollowed out from within, forming an arched void from chest to head. The minimalist facial features and slumped posture evoke absence and loss, using emptiness as its central element.

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2. Window and Ladder – Too Late for Help — Leandro Erlich in Montevideo, Uruguay

A fragment of brick wall with a single window floats mid-air, supported by a ladder that leads nowhere. Placed in an empty lot, this illusion-based sculpture alters space and challenges logic.

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3. Border Hammock — Murat Gök in Istanbul, Turkey

Two fence poles curve inward to cradle a man resting in a hammock made from the fence itself. By bending an otherwise rigid border element into a place of rest, the sculpture offers a quiet yet clever political statement.

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4. Freedom — Zenos Frudakis in Philadelphia, USA

This bronze wall shows four human forms in various stages of breaking free, culminating in a fully emerged figure stepping into open space. It explores transformation and personal liberation.

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5. Giant Slingshot Bench — Cornelia Konrads in Germany

A wooden bench is suspended by two long red straps tied to a massive Y-shaped branch. The setup mimics a slingshot ready to launch, blending utility with playful imagination.

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6. Dignity — Dale Lamphere in Chamberlain, South Dakota, USA

Standing 50 feet tall, this stainless steel monument honors Native American women. The figure wears a star quilt composed of blue diamond shapes that shimmer in the wind.

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7. The Kiss of Death — Unknown Artist in Barcelona, Spain

This marble sculpture in Poblenou Cemetery shows a skeleton with wings gently kissing the forehead of a lifeless young man. Created in 1930, it’s both romantic and haunting.

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8. The Weight of Grief — Celeste Roberge in Portland, Maine, USA

A crouched human form is constructed from a metal frame filled with smooth river stones. The heavy material and posture communicate emotional burden through literal weight.

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9. UMI — Daniel Popper in Lisle, Illinois, USA

This monumental figure is composed of sculpted wood and branches shaped into a female form. Her hands and body are formed by intertwining tree limbs, suggesting organic unity.

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More: When Street Art Meets Nature (40 Photos)

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Bitter is a lost taste, even though bitterness is delicious and cures

Mural by Mona Caron for Exomusée , Le Locle, Switzerland. Drone shots by Mauro Neri.

Mona Caron: Gentiana Lutea – studding the landscape here in the highs of the Jura mountains, standing tall in the rolling meadows like little flagpoles marking the spots where you can dig for its magic and prized bitter root, a key ingredient of many vermouths, liqueurs, firewaters, syrups and tinctures, here in the homeland of Absinthe.

Bitter is a lost taste, even though bitterness is delicious and cures. Addiction to the sweet has narrowed the spectrum of pleasures that palates can enjoy, keeping many from healthy habits.

So I offer this bitter-rooted wildflower, a field weed as metaphor of resilience through the strength we gain by daring something feared, perhaps uncomfortably new but actually ancient, unearthing both medicine and pleasure which nature has been beckoning us towards all along. Follow the golden-flowered beacon.