Each shot contains between ten and 100 seeds, depending on the species. The smaller poppy seeds, for instance, end up at about 100 per shell, and Cromwell estimates that to fill an average-sized ...

Madeline Marrow thinks her Mexican shell flower (Tigridia Pavonia) looks like it would grow on Mars, but instead, it grows in the backyard of her Richmond home. The blooms on this gorgeous and ...

“It basically started out as an art project,” says Per Cromwell, inventor of the Flower Shell, a 12-gauge shotgun shell loaded with seeds for poppies, peonies, and cornflowers.“I got the ...

The Bonita Springs Shell Club meets Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon in the craft room at Brookdale by the Promenade in Bonita Springs, and anyone is welcome to join. If you go What: 2016 Bonita ...

Exquisite art coaxed out of its shell Skilled Dalian craftsman, 79, transforms 'gift from the ocean' into beautiful paintings, sculptures, Deng Zhangyu reports.

Seashell Art Is Shedding Its Kitschy Reputation. No longer confined to beachy souvenir shops, works encrusted with oysters and mussels are showing up in galleries and interiors.