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 Berlin plants, tagged art, Berlin, city, dandelions, flowers, photography, pictures, sidewalk, weeds on 1 May 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Big bro and kid bro dandelion hanging out in front of the techno club ://aboutblank. Giving them a once over: cool couple hops and Ailanthus altissima.
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged art, Berlin, flowers, gardening, Kreuzberg, photography, pictures, plants, street on 24 April 2013 | Leave a Comment »
In a grungy steel planter in front of a cute little mite of a delicatessen in Kreuzberg,
Posted in Berlin plants, Personal plants, tagged art, Berlin, flowers, photography, pictures, plants on 18 March 2013 | 8 Comments »
Kind of gross, kind of gorgeous. I left this red ranunculus blossom in a water glass on my office windowsill over the weekend. Today I found it had drunk all the water and stuck itself to the bottom of the glass in a surprising way. Beautiful decay? Or just slimy?
Posted in Berlin plants, Projects from others, tagged art, Berlin, crafts, DIY, fake flowers, flowers, paper, photography, pictures, plants, spring on 15 March 2013 | 1 Comment »
“Make your own sunshine,” Sylee titled the blog post on Berlin Reified featuring her photos of this make-your-own tulips kit, made here in Berlin. Yes, we must make our own sunshine here in the gray city at the moment, holding our breaths, waiting for spring to come and bring us the real thing!
Photo by Sylee Gore, Berlin Reified
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, 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 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.
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