In Rhythm with Nature

In Rhythm with Nature builds a digital garden around flowers, changing scenes and sound. Its opening and closing blooms provide cues for a gentle pause, with the design drawing on the idea of a flower clock. The focus is looking and listening rather than completing a task.

What is In Rhythm with Nature?

Anna Glover's painted flowers form the basis of animated botanical settings. Google's creative team and collaborators connect that artwork to Carl Linnaeus's flower-clock concept, where different blooming times suggest a way to mark the day. The production studio describes a garden that changes with local time and pairs its scenes with layered sound. On the landing page, the experience sits inside an embedded player under a Nature label. This is a screen visit with an unusually small agenda: spend a moment with one scene and let the flowers do the busy work.

What you can do there

• Watch illustrated flowers open and close with breathing cues

Why we picked it

Botanical illustration and a clock make a pleasing pair. One invites you to study a shape; the other usually tells you to hurry. Giving the clock to a garden turns that familiar pressure into a reason to pause over color, movement and sound.

How to get the most from it

Open the embedded experience and give the flower scene time to settle. Begin with your volume low if you want to hear the soundscape. Use the opening and closing as an optional attention cue, and spend as little or as much time with the scene as feels comfortable.

Good to know

The experience includes animated scenes and a soundscape. It is an artistic interpretation of a flower clock, so it should not serve as a botanical reference or personal health recommendation. Its changing garden is part of the design; different visits may present different settings.

Who made it, and when?

Google Arts & Culture Lab, Google Wellbeing Lab and International Arts + Mind Lab is the credited creator or organization.