The vertical garden, a striking substitute for wasteful displays of cut flowers, was produced through a collaboration by Flora Grubb, a landscape designer; her fiancé, Kevin Smith; and Seth Boor, an architect. Because it was conceived fairly late in the building process, there was no way to include irrigation infrastructure, so the drought-tolerant plants are misted by hose every few days.

The effect is that of a Victorian collector’s cabinet of curiosities. “Our first instinct was to really pack the plants in,” Ms. Grubb said. “But then as we pulled them apart, they became so much more special, like abstracted sea creatures.”

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