Happy spring from your urban plant researchers.
Posts Tagged ‘spring’
Happy Easter plants
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged art, easter, garden, photography, pictures, plants, spring on 20 April 2014| 2 Comments »
Spring onion
Posted in Berlin plants, Personal plants, tagged art, food, onion, photography, pictures, plant, spring on 17 April 2014| 5 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: Cardboard tulips at Sylee’s
Posted in Berlin plants, Projects from others, tagged Berlin, crafts, DIY, fake flowers, flowers, paper, spring on 15 March 2013| 1 Comment »
“Make your own sunshine,” Sylee titled the blog post on Berlin Reified featuring her photos of this make-your-own tulips kit, made here in Berlin. Yes, we must make our own sunshine here in the gray city at the moment, holding our breaths, waiting for spring to come and bring us the real thing!
Photo by Sylee Gore, Berlin Reified
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 »
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.
Lichtenberg: First crocus of 2013
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged crocus, flowers, gardening, nature, spring on 2 March 2013| 2 Comments »
The first crocus I’ve seen this year. There were snowdrops too. Spring is near. Can’t wait.
Berlin: Seedlings take over kitchen counter
Posted in Berlin plants, Edible plants & recipes, Personal plants, tagged food, gardening, houseplant, seedlings, spring, vegetables on 24 April 2012| 1 Comment »
Not all urban plants sprout up uninvited on the mean sidewalks of the city. Indeed, in Berlin, planting the balcony is a spring ritual for many. Those without balconies, like myself, have adopted bits of land in community gardens. It’s still too early for many plants to be planted outdoors, but seedlings are being started in apartments around the city.
Berlin: First spring harvest – chives – and recipes
Posted in Berlin plants, Edible plants & recipes, tagged chives, cooking, food, gardening, recipes, spring on 9 April 2012| 6 Comments »
So many chives! Although we had not cared for, planted or even visited our community garden plot until yesterday, we arrived to find a ridiculous amount of lush chives to harvest. Now in their fifth year, our plants are apparently robust enough to take care of themselves and provide a hands-off first spring crop for us to enjoy.
Near Washington, D.C.: Spring blooms by streetlight
Posted in From our readers, Projects from others, Questions & discussion, tagged flowers, light, light pollution, night, spring, tree, washington d.c. on 30 March 2012| Leave a Comment »
Today’s springtime urban plant beauty was captured at nighttime, by Sarah Parker, in a Home Depot parking lot near Washington, D.C. I’ve always found blossoming spring trees to be most beautiful at night, glowing under the streetlights, but have never gotten a good shot of them. I’m so glad Sarah captured this sight for us all to enjoy. It’s so beautiful that I’ll leave my usual worries about light pollution and plant insomnia aside. You can check out more photos on Sarah’s Statigram page. Have a great spring weekend, everyone!