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.
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Germany: the fate of Christmas trees in January
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 »
Berlin, Entry 37: Guerilla Garden
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged apartment, balcony, flowerbed, Friedrichshain, garden, guerilla garden, high-rise, recycling on 19 November 2008| Leave a Comment »
10 November 2008, 15:00
Lichtenbergerstr 34-37, Friedrichshain, Berlin
Another very big high rise with orderly balconies and orderly hedges along the bottoms of the facades. Only here, a long ponytail trailing down from a first-floor balcony leads the eye to a flowerbed, surely a guerilla garden.