Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged art, drawing, flowers, illustration, photography, pictures, thistle, watercolor, weeds on 5 May 2013 | 1 Comment »
Spring on Spain’s Costa de la Luz (the Atlantic part of the coastline) is an explosion of wildflower blossoms, from red poppies and yellow-and-white daisies to purple thistles and blue borage. I plucked a few while staying in the dusty little village of El Palmar to study more closely.
Posted in Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged art, flowers, garden, gardening, New Haven, plants, snowdrops, spring, video on 8 March 2013 | 3 Comments »
I was already planning to celebrate the recent appearance of this year’s first snowdrops with a post of some sort. Then I found out that my friend Eric Larson, manager of Yale’s Marsh Botanical Garden, introduces this little white early bird of a flower in the latest video he’s hosted for an internet project called GardenClips.
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged art, crocus, flowers, gardening, nature, photography, pictures, spring on 2 March 2013 | 2 Comments »
The first crocus I’ve seen this year. There were snowdrops too. Spring is near. Can’t wait.
Posted in From our contributors, Plants worldwide, tagged art, California, flowers, graffiti, mailbox, moss, photography, plants, sidewalk on 1 March 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Do you see urban plants in this picture? What about graffiti?
My sharp-eyed sister Phoebe did. She observed some interesting sidewalk phenomena during a recent visit to our childhood home:
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged art, city, funny, gardening, japan, kyoto, photography, pictures, plants, potted plant on 20 February 2013 | 2 Comments »
Only plants may park on this driveway, on a small street of souvenir shops and lunch spots on Kyoto’s famous Philosopher’s Walk, leading to Ginkakuji, the silver temple. The Philosopher’s Walk is full of cherry blossoms in the spring, they say; in winter, there are other plants to be seen.
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged art, city, flowers, gardening, kyoto, photography, pictures, plants, potted plant, travel on 12 February 2013 | 8 Comments »
For lack of yards, many Kyoto houses and apartment buildings feature jury-rigged container gardens instead. These usually consist of rows of motley pots and crates lined up along the building walls, adjoining the sidewalk. This container garden had a different feel.
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged art, fake, ice cream, japan, kyoto, photography, pictures, plastic, zoo on 12 January 2013 | 3 Comments »
Posted in Personal plants, Plants worldwide, tagged art, bathroom, flowers, herbs, indoors, photography, pictures on 11 January 2013 | Leave a Comment »
In a charming plant-themed café in northeastern Kyoto, even the bathroom sink was made of wood and adorned with a fresh hydrangea wreath and a rosemary sprig.
Posted in Personal plants, Plants worldwide, tagged art, food, fruit, gardening, japan, photography, pictures, yuzu on 7 January 2013 | 5 Comments »
My host in Kyoto has a yuzu tree in her garden. I have tree envy.
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Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged art, japan, kyoto, new year, paper, photography, pictures, trees on 2 January 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year! These trees at Heian shrine are carrying the fortunes and hopes of hundreds of prayerful visitors.
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