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 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 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.
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 Hawaii plants, tagged agave, art, flowers, garden, gardening, hawaii, honolulu, photography, pictures on 16 January 2015| Leave a Comment »
All over Honolulu, the Dr. Seuss-esque towers of agave flowers have been catching my eye. The spiky, seafoam-green plants are popular for home gardens here. A little research on Wikipedia suggests that this is the Mexican species Agave attenuata, which, thanks to the shape of its inflorescence, is also called foxtail, lion’s tail or swan’s neck. It is a different species that is used for tequila, the blue agave, also know as, what else, Agave tequilana.
Posted in Berlin plants, From our readers, Personal plants, tagged art, Berlin, city, garden, gardening, neukölln, photography, pictures on 6 June 2014| Leave a Comment »
It was at an edible urban plants walk (led by artist Karola Schlegelmilch seven years ago) that I first met Deborah S. Phillips, an artist based in Berlin-Neukölln. Since then our paths have crossed regularly; we seem to share a lot of different interests besides plants, such as visual art and translation. After attending our plant discussion in Lichtenberg, Deborah sent this photo of her courtyard, which she’s been caring for. More about that and many other things on her blog: http://deborahsp.wordpress.com
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged art, easter, garden, photography, pictures, plants, spring on 20 April 2014| 2 Comments »
Happy spring from your urban plant researchers.
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged botanical garden, garden, gardening, greenhouse, lund, park, potted plant, snow, sweden, winter on 7 February 2014| 6 Comments »
Winter may not seem like the best time to visit a botanical garden. It’s cold, the trees look stark and leafless, and the smaller plants look, well, pathetic. But as I recently saw in Lund, Sweden, a garden in winter holds other other surprises…
Posted in Berlin plants, Events/exhibitions/etc., Projects from others, tagged art book, artist, ATAK, Berlin, exhibition, garden, illustration, painting on 30 November 2013| Leave a Comment »
At 5pm today, artist ATAK is introducing his new book, Der Garten, 32 pages of his paintings about the garden. “The garden breathes time and time breathes as a garden. I go to the garden in the evenings to breathe,” he says.
Posted in Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged flowers, garden, gardening, New Haven, snowdrops, spring, video on 8 March 2013| 3 Comments »
I was already planning to celebrate the recent appearance of this year’s first snowdrops with a post of some sort. Then I found out that my friend Eric Larson, manager of Yale’s Marsh Botanical Garden, introduces this little white early bird of a flower in the latest video he’s hosted for an internet project called GardenClips.
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