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: Bärlauch, or, cooking spring
Posted in Berlin plants, Edible plants & recipes, tagged bärlauch, Berlin, cooking, edible, food, foraging, recipe, seasonal, spring, wild plants on 11 April 2013| 6 Comments »
As I’ve mentioned, spring has felt massively delayed to many Berliners this year. Maybe our expectations have been warped by global warming, but it feels like we’ve been waiting, shivering at near-zero temperatures, on the brink of spring for ages. We’ve watched reports on TV about Germany’s beloved spring crop, white asparagus, whose harvest has been delayed for more than four weeks by the cold rain. Same for my favorites, bright pink rhubarb and Bärlauch, the tender wild garlic greens that Berliners forage in city parks, which both have been nowhere to be seen… until this week!
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.
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