Berlin: Urban gardening as marketing?

In case you hadn’t noticed that urban gardening has become a full-blown mainstream trend, I picked up some evidence while window-shopping in the trendy area of Berlin-Mitte around Alexanderplatz the other day.

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San Francisco: Happy New Year with Double Avocado Fortune

Happy New Year! I’m sending you all my sunniest greetings for the new year, and apologies for the long silence. I escaped gray Berlin for three sunny weeks driving up and down my home state of California, meeting with my Urban Plant collaborator Sara in picturesque Napa Valley and spotting urban plants all along the way!

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Basel: urban gardening, Swiss style

My walks through idyllic summer Basel revealed small-city plants around every corner, such as the tomatoes and herbs inhabiting a planter that mirrors the form of an adjacent bench on a traffic-calmed side street in Kleinbasel. Urban gardening has certainly arrived in Switzerland, or perhaps more accurately, is spreading out from its established territory of back- and front yards and claiming new spaces!

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Basel: Small city has plants galore

 

A summer visit to Basel, a small Swiss city on the French and German borders, reveals an abundance of cared-for urban plants and many others that quietly and happily share space with the city residents.

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