Winter may not seem like the best time to visit a botanical garden. It’s cold, the trees look stark and leafless, and the smaller plants look, well, pathetic. But as I recently saw in Lund, Sweden, a garden in winter holds other other surprises…
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Lund, Sweden: winter in the botanical garden
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged botanical garden, garden, gardening, greenhouse, lund, park, potted plant, snow, sweden, winter on 7 February 2014| 6 Comments »
Berlin: Taking spring into his own hands
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, Friedrichshain, funny, intervention, sidewalk, snow, spring, street art, winter on 5 April 2013| 7 Comments »
Snow is still on the ground a week after Easter. Most Berliners are busy complaining about the total absence of spring, but my neighbor Herr Mischke has taken matters into his own hands. On the mountain of old snow in front of his bookshop, Atlantis, he’s throwing this spring’s first garden party on the icy peak.
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Geografische Buchhandlung Atlantis is an independent bookshop ‘for reading travelers and traveling readers,’ with maps, travel guides, and general interest books (mostly in German). Karl-Marx-Allee 98, Berlin-Friedrichshain.
Berlin-Neukölln: snowbound plants
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, city, houseplant, neukölln, snow, window, winter on 6 February 2013| 3 Comments »
A winter view from back in January, with a tropical plant and a gaggle of amaryllis framed by windows, stuck inside by the winter snow. Today, the sun has melted the last of the snow away; Berliners – people and plants alike – are turning their faces towards the rare rays. It feels a little like spring, only the trees are still bare and, it being only the beginning of February, we know there could still be snowstorms and chilly days ahead.
Lichtenberg: snowbound sunflower
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged fake plants, flower, gardening, snow, sunflower, winter on 23 December 2012| Leave a Comment »
Off doing country village plant research for awhile. Found a sunflower in the snow. Wishing happy holidays to people and plants everywhere!
Brooklyn/Manhattan: Nightscapes, snow and parks
Posted in Brooklyn plants, Plants elsewhere in NYC, tagged Brooklyn, New York, Prospect Park, snow on 16 April 2009| Leave a Comment »
I must preface this post with an apology for uploading monochromatic, thick-of-winter photographs when it is clearly now spring. Spring! The city is bursting with new leaves and flowers which I have been excitedly documenting. But for now, I will use the excuse that it snowed last week – a brief, desperate flurry – to share some winter urban landscapes before moving on to spring.
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