Posted in Plants Elsewhere, Projects from others, tagged art, celeste ng, cleveland, installation, polka dots, trees, yayoi kusama on 23 July 2018| 1 Comment »
Yayoi Kusama’s artwork is joyous, full of polka dots and mirrored rooms. But I didn’t know she had anything to do with urban plants until writer Celeste Ng tweeted about seeing “these trees, dolled up in their polka-dot finest in honor of a Yayoi Kusama exhibit” at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Celeste Ng kindly gave us permission to share her photos on our humble blog. Thank you, Celeste! Readers, please check out her Twitter: @pronounced_ing and her latest novel, Little Fires Everywhere.
Posted in Berlin plants, Events/exhibitions/etc., Projects from others, tagged art, art project, Berlin, community garden, drawing, exhibition, garden on 1 September 2016| Leave a Comment »
You’re invited to the Tiny Haus at the Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin’s coolest community garden (where you can drink beer between trees), for an exhibition this Saturday and Sunday, 2-5pm (September 3-4). Drawings and herbarium specimens will fill the room, made by students from the past two Botanical Drawing Workshops taught by my friend and fellow urban plant lover, Mira O’Brien.
Posted in Edible plants & recipes, Hawaii plants, Projects from others, tagged art, cooking, edible plants, foraging, hawaii, herbs, honolulu, recipes, weeds on 27 July 2016| 4 Comments »
Oahu-based public artist Gaye Chan once told me and Marko that we were part of her lost tribe. If by that she means we are into Free Stores, foraging free food, and eating weeds, then yes, we are! (more…)
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 Events/exhibitions/etc., tagged art, Berlin, exhibition, park, photography, pictures, video on 7 October 2015| Leave a Comment »
For a few more days, deep in Berlin’s Neukölln district, you can find an entire exhibition full of art about urban gardens and plants. And the gallery is in an urban oasis, a sunken garden with fountains, lawns and flowers.
Do stop by Körnerpark if you are in town and see Urban Plant Research exhibiting alongside other botanically-inclined artists. The closing reception at 5pm on Sunday, October 11, will include a tour guided by the curator and several of the artists. We sadly cannot be there in person and hope you will represent us if you are in Berlin!
Image from Galerie im Körnerpark’s Facebook page, © Nihad Nino Pusija, 2015.
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 From our readers, tagged architecture, art, cities, denver, flowers, photography, pictures, sidewalk, urban plants on 3 August 2015| Leave a Comment »
Hollyhocks and few other plants are thriving in the tiny gap between the buildings and sidewalks of Denver (though a few look like they’ve been pruned).
Min Li Chan of San Francisco send this photo-report from her travels to the RiNo arts district, which she described as “an industrial area turned hipster art neighborhood, not unlike Williamsburg five years ago.” Perhaps we should compare Brooklyn plants to Denver plants?
Thank you to Min Li for stopping to observe some urban plants and share them with us!
Posted in Events/exhibitions/etc., tagged architecture, art, Berlin, exhibition, garden, gardening, neukölln, park, photography, pictures on 14 July 2015| Leave a Comment »
The exhibition Andere Gärten (Different Gardens) opens this Friday in Berlin and Urban Plant Research is honored to be participating with a new video, Beobachtungen/Observations. We’re especially excited about the show because it is not only about urban gardens, it will be in an urban garden! (more…)
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 California plants, tagged art, California, fence, garden, photography, pictures, San Francisco, tree on 6 March 2015| 4 Comments »
This fenced-in plant “looks like it wants to escape its enclosure,” writes Megan Mock, who wrote in response to our post on a banana tree invading a bathroom.
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