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.
Posts Tagged ‘New Haven’
New Haven: Snowdrops and Gardenclips
Posted in Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged flowers, garden, gardening, New Haven, snowdrops, spring, video on 8 March 2013| 3 Comments »
Trees after Hurricane Sandy
Posted in Plants elsewhere in NYC, Plants worldwide, Questions & discussion, tagged city, ecology, hurricane sandy, New Haven, New York, sandy, subway, trees, weather on 31 October 2012| Leave a Comment »
The damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, as documented above by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, included flooding in the South Ferry subway station in lower Manhattan, home to the lovely tree installation by the Starn brothers we reported on four years ago. Back then, the station looked like this:
New Haven area: photography by Jordan Nodelman
Posted in Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged city, house, New Haven, sidewalk, street, suburbia on 29 October 2012| 6 Comments »
Yellow Line, photograph by Jordan Nodelman
Can plants in the suburbs also be considered urban plants, or is their situation completely different? What about places like Greater New Haven, Connecticut, that feel urban in some areas and like suburbia in others? Can interesting frictions be observed between plants and the human environment in these places? During my recent trip to New Haven’s City-Wide Open Studios, I had the privelege of meeting and seeing the work of a local artist, Jordan Nodelman, who is exploring the built environment of this area (and others) and often captures plants in relation to man-made structures of all sorts. Read on for more…
New Haven: The plants of City-Wide Open Studios
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged city-wide open studios, New Haven, open studios, potted plant, studio, warehouse, window on 10 October 2012| 4 Comments »
Among the hundreds of artists opening their studios in New Haven at Artspace’s month of City-Wide Open Studios festivities, I spotted a few art-loving plants. Above, a potted ensemble at Megan Craig‘s studio in an old warehouse…
New Haven: Bittersweet’s a climber
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged climbing, house, invasive, New Haven, vine, wall, weeds on 2 March 2010| 2 Comments »
On the side of a house on Orange Street, this incredibly twining vine impressed me. I was on my first tentative urban plant walk in New Haven, seeing if there were any plants to observe, despite it being the dead of winter. Somehow I was drawn to the space between two houses, where I found this vine twining tightly around itself and everything else it could reach.
New Haven: Flamingo, Greenhouse, Edgerton Park
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged flamingo, greenhouse, New Haven, potted plant on 23 June 2008| Leave a Comment »
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