Among the hundreds of artists opening their studios in New Haven at Artspace’s month of City-Wide Open Studios festivities, I spotted a few art-loving plants. Above, a potted ensemble at Megan Craig‘s studio in an old warehouse…
Then there was Leslie Carmin‘s charming backyard studio under the trees…
John Keefer‘s stately second-story studio tree…
and a fence-dwelling vine by the mysterious trailer in West Cove Studios‘ backyard bordering Long Island Sound.
If you’re in the New Haven area, you can check out both the plants and the artists for the next two weekends: www.cwos.org.
urban plant research 
Nice photos, Leslie! we will actually be in New Haven towards the end of November but unfortunately too late for Open Studios.
Hope you are enjoying the last warm days of autumn before the grey Berlin winter sets in! :)
Hi there, thanks for the comment! I have neglected to comment on your blog lately since I’ve started using an RSS reader, but I was excited to see that you went chestnut hunting. Some friends of mine who are new to foraging accidentally collected a large number of horse chestnuts… but fortunately discovered their error on time. They did see one edible chestnut in Hasenheide but I don’t know if they’ve found any nuts in good condition. What will you be doing in New Haven? October was so lovely there!
A friend of ours also collected horse chestnuts by mistake and actually ate them! We haven’t seen the edible chestnuts in Hasenheide but there are several down in Treptower Park. It seems like less than 10 percent of the nuts are good (due to failed pollination) and the fierce competition from squirrels, rats and famished Germans means they disappear quickly!
My parents live near New Haven so we are heading over there for the holidays and bringing their 4 month old grandson to see them :)
Now I finally understand why so few edible chestnuts are planted in Berlin – they really do not seem to thrive here, if the number of viable nuts is any indication.
Great that you get to spend some time in New Haven! If you can, do visit the Yale Farm and Yale’s Marsh Botanic Garden, both just north of downtown off of Prospect St. You can wander around the grounds of both gardens at any time, but if you go during a public event, you can get a tour of the extensive greenhouses at at Marsh and maybe even tastes of some edible plants like banana, miracle fruit, lemongrass and passionfruit, or get a guided tour and maybe some open-air brick-oven pizza at the Farm:
http://marshbotanicalgarden.yale.edu/
http://www.yale.edu/sustainablefood/farm.html