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Malmö: Trees on a treeless street

Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged , , , , , , , , on 22 February 2014| 1 Comment »

Streetscape of brick buildings, one of which has tree images in its first floor windows

Is this street empty of trees or full of them? Depends on how you count ’em.

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Berlin: Tie me up! Tie me down!

Posted in Berlin plants, tagged , , , , , on 26 November 2012| Leave a Comment »

Many tied-up Christmas trees in a courtyard

Little tied-up Christmas trees wobbling around a Berlin hotel courtyard today, looking like so many skinny stockinged bank-robber heads.

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San Francisco: Urban slants, urban plants

Posted in California plants, tagged , , , , , , , on 1 May 2012| 4 Comments »

On the sloping streets of San Francisco, local plants are interacting with the local architecture, growing against all odds. Phoebe Kuo sent in the above photo, reporting, “An intrepid urban plant seeks refuge on a steep San Francisco incline on Hayes Street, facing Alamo Square park (home of the famous Full House ‘painted ladies’), inside a nice, wet rain gutter.” Let’s take a closer look…

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Lyon: Screened-out plants

Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged , , , , , on 22 November 2011| Leave a Comment »

Tree behind screened scaffolding

Walking in the workaday neighborhood of Part Dieu on a trip to Lyon recently, on my way to the famous Les Halles food markets, I was struck by a tableaux that I had to stop and photograph.

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Alcácer do Sal, PT: Pigeons and plants

Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged , , , , , , on 26 August 2011| Leave a Comment »

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The pretty, aging river-port town of Alcácer do Sal is known for the storks that nest atop its church towers, but it was the pigeons and plants that caught my eye.

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Mons: Windowsill plant friends

Posted in Plants elsewhere in NYC, tagged , , , , , on 16 August 2011| Leave a Comment »

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Berlin yesterday: Book, photo, film

Posted in Events/exhibitions/etc., From our readers, Projects from others, tagged , , , , , , on 8 July 2009| Leave a Comment »

Flip Flop filmstills

Stills from Flip Flop by Anke 

Yesterday was an eventful day for Urban Plant Research in Berlin. I had a visit in the studio with Anke from the artistic-botanic small press Beton + Garten Verlag, which is working with us on our first Urban Plant Research book.

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Berlin, Entry 36: Ivy turning golden

Posted in Berlin plants, tagged , , , , , , , , 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.

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Entry 23, Juncker’s Hotel Garni

Posted in Berlin plants, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 5 November 2008| 2 Comments »

Juncker's Hotel Garni

18 July 2008 (observed) / 9 September 2008 (photographed)
Grünbergerstraße 21, Friedrichshain, Berlin

This is a small hotel I always enjoy walking past. To think of a hotel owner taking the time to cultivate such bodacious balconies makes me happy.

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