Posted in Berlin plants, tagged autumn, Berlin, fall, leaf, nature, tree on 19 November 2012| 2 Comments »
When leaves start falling in autumn, they sometimes amaze me with their size. The enormous leaves from tulip trees, for example, can be as big as your face! This one, from a plane tree on a Berlin street, isn’t quite that large, but it’s still pretty big.
Our colleague, local ecologist, is also collecting leaves – quite a few more than I’ve gathered so far.
If you’ve found any interesting leaves in your neighborhoods, let me know!
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged autumn, Berlin, city, foraging, Friedrichshain, prenzlauer berg, tree on 5 October 2011| 11 Comments »
There are so many Turkish hazelnuts showering down onto Berlin’s streets and sidewalks these days, I just don’t know how I overlooked them before reading Berlin Plants’ informative hazelnut article. Now I see them everywhere!
Posted in California plants, Plants worldwide, tagged autumn, California, Stockton, suburban on 15 January 2009| 1 Comment »
Traveling back each year to the place I grew up, I notice changes in the commercial and residential landscape: bookstores that have gone, chains that have moved in, friends’ families who have moved away, the spreading of the suburban perimeter. I notice new traffic lights and speed bumps while driving through the old neighborhood. But until the birth of Urban Plant Research, I largely took for granted the strangeness of American suburban landscaping and the role plants play in setting the tone of this environment. This time I began to look.
Among tidily-kept lawn-shapes and bush sculptures, rock gardens and cement-scapes, here and there I found an errant wildness, like this lovely tree spouting fiery plumes from within the confines of a nondescript roof.
Posted in Brooklyn plants, tagged autumn, Brooklyn, fall leaves, urban plants on 11 January 2009| Leave a Comment »
How did the fall run away without me? I find myself in the thick of wintertime with un-downloaded fall pictures still in my camera and un-uploaded thoughts on fall still clanking around in my head!
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged autumn, Berlin, building, city, facade, Friedrichshain, golden, ivy, 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.
Posted in Brooklyn plants, tagged autumn, Brooklyn, graffiti, ivy on 10 November 2008| 5 Comments »
I recently photographed ivy and a billboard contributing their own graffiti to the side of a building above the Prospect Highway…
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