Little tied-up Christmas trees wobbling around a Berlin hotel courtyard today, looking like so many skinny stockinged bank-robber heads.
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Berlin: Tie me up! Tie me down!
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged art, Berlin, building, christmas tree, city, photography, pictures, plants, tied up, tree on 26 November 2012 | Leave a Comment »
San Francisco: Urban slants, urban plants
Posted in From our contributors, Plants worldwide, tagged architecture, art, building, city, gutter, photography, pictures, San Francisco, sidewalk, wall, weeds on 1 May 2012 | 4 Comments »
On the sloping streets of San Francisco, local plants are interacting with the local architecture, growing against all odds. Phoebe Kuo sent in the above photo, reporting, “An intrepid urban plant seeks refuge on a steep San Francisco incline on Hayes Street, facing Alamo Square park (home of the famous Full House ‘painted ladies’), inside a nice, wet rain gutter.” Let’s take a closer look…
Lyon: Screened-out plants
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged art, building, city, confinement, France, Lyon, photography, plants, scaffolding on 22 November 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Walking in the workaday neighborhood of Part Dieu on a trip to Lyon recently, on my way to the famous Les Halles food markets, I was struck by a tableaux that I had to stop and photograph.
Alcácer do Sal, PT: Pigeons and plants
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged animals, art, birds, building, photography, Pigeons, Portugal, urban plants, wall on 26 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The pretty, aging river-port town of Alcácer do Sal is known for the storks that nest atop its church towers, but it was the pigeons and plants that caught my eye.
Mons: Windowsill plant friends
Posted in Plants elsewhere in NYC, tagged art, Belgium, building, house, houseplant, Mons, photography, window on 16 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Berlin yesterday: Book, photo, film
Posted in Events, exhibitions, etc., From our contributors, Projects from others, tagged art, Berlin, book, building, film, friedrichshain, photography, quiz, winner on 8 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stills from Flip Flop by Anke
Yesterday was an eventful day for Urban Plant Research in Berlin. I had a visit in the studio with Anke from the artistic-botanic small press Beton + Garten Verlag, which is working with us on our first Urban Plant Research book.
Berlin, Entry 36: Ivy turning golden
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged autumn, Berlin, building, city, facade, friedrichshain, golden, ivy, photography, plants, window on 17 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
10 November 2008, 14:30
Karl-Marx-Allee 69, Friedrichshain, Berlin
In front of, on either side of, and all over the hedges below a shuttered first-floor window on this wide, white-tiled high rise, ivy is meandering, ranging, turning gold and brown and waving in the wind. In a black square to one side, an indoor plant pushes against the glass.
This photo doesn’t really capture the vividness of the scene – it was a dark, overcast day, so even at 2 in the afternoon, the light was scant. But I wanted to record these plants anyway.
Entry 23, Juncker’s Hotel Garni
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged balcony, Berlin, building, city, flower, friedrichshain, geraniums, green, hotel, ivy, photography, plants, urban plant research on 5 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
18 July 2008 (observed) / 9 September 2008 (photographed)
Grünbergerstraße 21, Friedrichshain, Berlin
This is a small hotel I always enjoy walking past. To think of a hotel owner taking the time to cultivate such bodacious balconies makes me happy.
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