Yarrow in a sea of lichens on the shuttered Tempelhof airfield, now a park…
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Berlin: Lichens and wildflowers at Tempelhof airfield
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged airport, Berlin, history, lichen, reclaiming, reuse, tempelhof, wildflowers, yarrow on 5 July 2012| Leave a Comment »
A new guidebook about Berlin’s urban plants
Posted in Berlin plants, Projects from others, tagged Berlin, book, city, guidebook, history, wild on 28 June 2009| 4 Comments »
It looks like Sara and Leslie are not the only curious duo hot on the trails of Berlin’s wild plants. This new guidebook, to be published this summer, also finds two creative women, Heiderose Häsler and Iduna Wünschmann, seeking out often-overlooked plants and researching their connection to the people and history of the city.
Titled Berliner Pflanzen: Das wilde Grün der Großstadt (Berlin Plants: The Wild Greenery of the City), the book is presented by a small publishing house called Edition Terra that specializes in guidebooks about Germany, with a special focus on trees and gardens (and windmills!). (more…)
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