Posted in Berlin plants, Projects from others, tagged architecture, Berlin, flowers, Kreuzberg, neukölln, park, treptow on 23 August 2013| 2 Comments »
Weißer See, Pankow, Berlin ©William Niendorff
Looking through the photos of Berlin’s parks on Planting Art, all taken this summer by Texas-based artist and landscape architect William Niendorff, it’s hard to believe all these green spaces are in Berlin.
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, flowers, gardening, Kreuzberg, street on 24 April 2013| Leave a Comment »
In a grungy steel planter in front of a cute little mite of a delicatessen in Kreuzberg,
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, christmas tree, city, Kreuzberg, street art, street tree, tree on 3 December 2012| 1 Comment »
The folks on Dresdenerstraße, a little street tucked away behind Kottbusser Tor in Berlin-Kreuzberg, have gotten up several of their currently leafless street trees with colorful baubles and ribbons. For once, Christmas finery isn’t reserved for the conifers.
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, community garden, gardening, Kreuzberg, trees on 4 August 2012| 2 Comments »
In the middle of Berlin, in the Prinzessinnengarten community garden in Kreuzberg, a bar that feels like it’s in the woods.
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, city, color, green, Kreuzberg, pipes, street, weeds on 18 November 2011| Leave a Comment »
This intrepid plant caught my eye with its bright green color as I was walking down Adalbertstraße in Kreuzberg the other day, not far from the petting zoo. Isn’t it amazing how it totally defies the gray-and-black palette of its stony and metallic surroundings with its radiant color?
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, cities, dandelions, Kreuzberg, sidewalk, weeds on 30 September 2011| Leave a Comment »
Spotted today on Bernburger Straße in the northwest end of Kreuzberg, near Anhalter Bahnhof.
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged asphalt, Berlin, construction, Kreuzberg, obstacle, pavement, tenacious, tree on 1 June 2009| 9 Comments »
30. May 2009, ca. 15:00, Mariannenplatz, Berlin-Kreuzberg
As Marko and I were passing by the big construction site in front of the Bethanien (an old brick hospital, once site of squatters’ movement, now home to arts organizations), he pointed and said, “There’s something for Urban Plant Research.” In a strip of newly laid asphalt, there had already been some kind of small-scale upheaval. It looked like the blacktop had been broken from underneath by some very determined plant!
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged architecture, balcony, Berlin, fake plant, houseplant, Kreuzberg, modernism on 11 April 2009| 1 Comment »
I sometimes visit a friend of mine at Johanniterstr. 5 in Berlin-Kreuzberg and the building always makes me smile. It’s a U-shaped apartment building that is both very Modernist and quite friendly-looking. Though it’s made of pre-poured gray cement slabs like many of its severe-looking counterparts in East Berlin (and also in Gropiusstadt, see below), its chubby, rounded white balconies and bright-yellow windowframes give it a cute, cheerful appearance. It also doesn’t hurt that the building’s proportions are modest – just 5 floors – or that it is home to many plants, in unexpected places and forms.
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, graffiti, ivy, Kreuzberg, silver, street art on 17 February 2009| 5 Comments »
10 November 2008, ca. 16:00
Engelbecken, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Freshly sprayed graffiti interacts (probably inadvertently) with the plants that had claimed the wall first. Red and gold leaves have been masked with black, but others have been memorialized in green: they blocked the new silver paint from hitting its target, leaving bits of the earlier green paint in perfectly leaf-shaped patterns. A welcome bit of subtlety and detail in a piece of painting that would otherwise be monotone and boring.
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, Kreuzberg on 8 October 2008| 1 Comment »
30 April 2008, ca. 17:15
In park in front of the Bethanien, Mariannenplatz, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Do the kids who tagged this tree even really realize it is a TREE, that it is ALIVE, a living thing? I was amazed to see writing on the surface of a tree in a park, as if a tree is just the same as furniture or a brick wall. Of course the comparison must be made to carving initials in hearts on trees, but though that action involves more force and injures the tree significantly more, at least it is done with full comprehension that the affected thing is a tree, with a formidable sheath of bark that must be battled with a sharp pocketknife. Somehow that seems to me a more understandable action than this blithe, rapid tagging of a tree with some fat felt-tipped marker.
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