About this time last year, I bought a Rose of Jericho at a tea shop. The Rose of Jericho is a plant that looks brown and dead until it is watered. Then unfurls, turning green in the center and smelling like the forest floor.
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Berlin: Rose of Jericho, revisited
Posted in Personal plants, Plants in Berlin, tagged art, Berlin, houseplant, photography, plants, rose of jericho, windowsill on 6 July 2009 | 2 Comments »
Berlin: Visit our community garden on Saturday
Posted in Personal plants, Plants in Berlin, tagged art, Berlin, community garden, event, friedrichshain, garden, Langer Tag der Stadtnatur, photography, plants, tour on 2 July 2009 | 6 Comments »
Unlike Phyllis, I don’t have a backyard to garden in, but I am a member of a young community garden, Bürgergarten Laskerwiese. Anke recently photographed me weeding my vegetable bed there, 10 square meters (90 square feet) which I share with Marko. You are invited to visit us this Saturday, when the gardeners will be hosting [...]
Berlin: Taking zucchinis for a walk
Posted in Personal plants, Plants in Berlin, tagged art, Berlin, community garden, garden, photography, plants, seedling, walk, zucchini on 24 June 2009 | 4 Comments »
Here’s a picture from an urban plant incident that spotaneously happened a few weeks ago. I was wondering how to transport four gangly zucchini seedlings from my apartment to the community garden. Luckily some friends dropped by to invite us for a stroll. So we took the zucchinis for their first trip outside. Maybe we [...]
The comeback tree: Ailanthus altissima, tree of heaven
Posted in From our readers, Personal plants, Plants Elsewhere, tagged ailanthus, art, Berlin, city, invasive, Mainz, photography, tree, tree of heaven, weed, wild on 4 June 2009 | 10 Comments »
Photo taken in Mainz, Germany by Jo Spittler
A lively discussion about Ailanthus altissima broke out in response to my last post about Marko finding a plant busting through the pavement. Observant reader Jo Spittler suggested that the ”breakthrough” tree might be an Ailanthus, also known under such poetic names as tree of heaven and ghetto [...]
Berlin: Seedlings started
Posted in Personal plants, Plants in Berlin, tagged Anke, balcony, Berlin, cold frame, garden, greenhouse, seedling, vegetables on 12 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have to say it again, spring moves fast!
These are photos I took less than four weeks ago and forgot to post until now. What at the time were two-leaved sprouts in a tiny greenhouse on Anke’s balcony have since been transplanted and are flourishing in our community garden.
Houseplant over Berlin
Posted in Personal plants, tagged Berlin, hibiscus, houseplant, view, window on 12 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Outside it is cold and gray. Inside, my hibiscus continues to bloom, red, above its bright green leaves.
Berlin: Rose of Jericho: Day 2
Posted in Personal plants on 31 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
30 July 2008: It was already apparent yesterday that the plant needed a flat vessel as a home in order to really open fully, so I moved it to a little gold-rimmed saucer who has no teacup (I found it in the free store Systemfehler – System Error). Today it is starting to turn green.
Berlin: Rose of Jericho: Day 1
Posted in Personal plants on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
29 July 2008: I put my Rose of Jericho in a dear old white bowl on my windowsill and poured some water over it. Within an hour it had opened up as much as the bowl allowed. The intense incense-musk-composting-pine-needle smell came as promised by the information sheet.
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