Posted in Personal plants, Plants worldwide, Projects from others on 8 March 2021| 1 Comment »
Ran across the book version of the Instagram account @boyswithplants last week (both projects by Scott Cain of Perth, Australia), in the very lovely queer bookstore Prinz Eisenherz in Berlin-Schöneberg. Recommended for anyone who likes cute plants and cute boys. Here’s the book website. Enjoy!
Posted in Plants worldwide, Projects from others on 12 December 2019| Leave a Comment »
Tim Knowles’ Tree Drawings employ the talents of nature.
Tim Knowles “Tree Drawing – Acer Olivaceum #1,” 2011 from bitforms gallery.
Posted in Hawaii plants, Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged flowers, foraging, Germany, hawaii, honolulu, lei, wildflowers on 4 July 2016| 1 Comment »
Sorry so silent! I’ve been busy arranging flowers in Honolulu, Beacon (where another Urban Plant Researcher recently wed!) and the German countryside, sometimes into bouquets and more often into lei.
Mahalo to the Hui Hana Lei Ladies who taught me to make haku lei in my last month in Hawaii. If you’re on Oahu, please visit their annual lei-making class this Thursday. I just posted about my experience making lei with the lei ladies, and more about their class, here on my other blog, Local Color.
Posted in Berlin plants, Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged Berlin, big, graveyard, old, resource, tree, website on 1 March 2016| Leave a Comment »
Do you like big, old trees? Well, you can find 22,446 big and old trees (with more posted every day) on the amazing international Monumental Trees website. My colleague, the writer and literary translator Isabel Cole, posted some great Berlin trees from the site today, and I knew I had to share this resource with you. monumentaltrees.com
Above: a giant black poplar in a graveyard in Berlin-Friedrichshain at Landsberger Allee and Friedenstraße. This graveyard used to be my backyard.
Have fun combing the website for big trees in your area, or making a virtual world tour of momentous trees. Do post the link below if you find any special specimens.
Posted in California plants, From our readers, Plants worldwide, tagged art, basketball, bush, funny, gardening, photography, pictures, shrub, suburb, topiary on 9 October 2015| Leave a Comment »
If you like oddities in urban space, plant-related or otherwise, @jesmcdowell‘s photos are for you. One of the funniest folks I know on Instagram, whom I’ve been following for almost four years now.
This is but one of Jes’s kooky finds. If anyone has an idea how this basketball hoop plant was grown/constructed, I could really use some theories.
Posted in Berlin plants, Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged art, Berlin, book, funny, gardening, photography, pictures, plants, seoul on 6 October 2015| 2 Comments »
“When I think about my first impressions of Korea, I see before all else overpopulated, hectic, noisy cities, modest, traditional architecture side by side with the ubiquitous functional yet disconsolate prefabricated housing blocks; I see Buddhist pagodas hemmed in by 8 lane traffic arteries…” writes Florian Bong-Kil Grosse about his new book of photography, Hanguk. This thoughtful, plant-appreciating Berlin artist shared some photos on this blog last year, and now we’d like to share his new publication and other recent work.
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged airport, design, indoor plants, mexico city, potted plants, terminal on 17 September 2015| 1 Comment »
While traveling through Mexico City’s Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez, I spotted (well, it was hard to avoid noticing) these large planters in the shape of oversized flower pots. Roughly five to seven feet tall, they’re scattered throughout Terminal 2. An odd choice of decor even for an airport terminal, I think. This image makes me think of some dystopian, futuristic sci-fi novel in which humans are taken on board the spacecraft of a very large alien species who have heard that houseplants remind humans of home…
That’s just my take on it. But I’m not sure these trees/bushes are all too pleased either!
Posted in From our readers, Plants worldwide, tagged art, flowers, funny, gardening, photography, pictures, potted plant, street, street art on 26 March 2015| 4 Comments »
This old piano, exploding with ivy and potted flowers, stands on a sidewalk in Brighton and Hove, UK. A passing urban plant aficionado shared it with us, asking to remain unnamed. Thank you, friend!
Posted in Hawaii plants, Plants worldwide, tagged art, flowers, garden, hawaii, photography, pictures, tree on 4 March 2015| 1 Comment »
So this is what can happen when orchids aren’t confined to a pot. At the home where I recently stayed in Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, the palm tree in the front yard was completely wrapped in the roots of these orchid plants.
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged art, Germany, Neuruppin, phoyography, pictures, thistle, vacant lot, weeds on 17 June 2014| 4 Comments »
Looking down into the vacant lot from the roof of the relative we were visiting in Neuruppin, we were all amazed to spot a breathtakingly enormous thistle plant towering in one corner. After doing some research, we decided it could be a Scotch thistle.
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