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 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.
Posted in From our readers, Plants worldwide, tagged art, bavaria, flower, Germany, photography, pictures, wall, weed on 11 June 2014| Leave a Comment »
Our friend Martin Hill is a Lichtenberg native, so we were glad he came out to our urban plants discussion at the Lichtenberg Studios last month with his wife Steffi. Over the weekend, they sent in their first contribution to the project: a small plant growing out of a crack in an ancient stone wall in the small Bavarian town of Pappenheim. It looks like an ivy-leaved toadflax, aka Kenilworth ivy, to me — Zimbelkraut or Zimbel-Mauerkraut in German — which often makes its home in stony gaps and cracks.
Photograph courtesy of Martin Hill.
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged country, flowers, garden, Germany, rural, village on 10 July 2012| Leave a Comment »
Spent the weekend in a village in the countryside. No urban plants there, but lots of plants in general, summer weather, birds and bugs…
Posted in Berlin plants, Brooklyn plants, From our readers, Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged Berlin, christmas tree, city, Germany, recycling on 31 January 2012| Leave a Comment »
What’s this? Could it really be a polar bear getting ready to eat a discarded Christmas tree? Indeed, our friend and faithful Urban Plants reader Phyllis alerted us to a strange and amazing January urban plant tradition that takes place each year in zoos all around Germany.
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged bucket, fallen fruit, foraging, Germany, lichtenberg, Neuruppin, village, walnuts on 17 September 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged architecture, balcony, cologne, flower shop, Germany, houseplants, urban plants on 14 August 2011| 1 Comment »
Visiting Cologne yesterday, I spotted a wonderful modernist building near Barbarossaplatz that was surrounded by little balconies just for plants! The balconies appear to be too narrow for people to use, more like catwalks, and are well stocked by the residents with geraniums, potted trees and other thriving plants.
