PLANTING ART
Welcome to my virtual garden!
My name is William Niendorff. I am a horticulturist, landscape architecture graduate student, designer and artist based in Austin, Texas. The photos in this blog are taken by me at my home greenhouse and garden in Central Austin, unless otherwise noted. Please explore this virtual planting space and observe how it grows and changes over time. I cultivate more than 150 different species of plants from xeric desert dwellers to rainforest tropicals and post new photos almost every day.
In addition to the kingdoms of life (Plantae, Animalia, etc.), art and architecture play important structural roles in the creation and facilitation of poetics within the space of landscape. Gardens and the beauty they create emerge from within our propagated and shared spaces, whether real or imagined, to provide many wonders from corporeal to aesthetic sustenance. It is here, I hope, in this virtual garden space, that visitors may engage in a relationship of mutual enlivening.
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Oberbaumbrücke, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg / Berlin
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Molecule Man by American sculptor Jonathan Borofsky. Completed in 1999 this 30 meter tall 45 ton aluminum sculpture looms large above the Spree at the intersection of the neighborhoods of Alt-Treptow & Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin.
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Occupied lot on the River Spree at Cuvrystraße & Schlesische Straße. Kreuzberg / Berlin
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Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park. Alt-Treptow / Berlin
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On the banks of the River Spree, just Southeast of Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, sits heavily-forested Treptower Park. The site of the Soviet War Memorial completed in 1949 is dedicated to the more than 22,000 Soviet soldiers who lost their lives in the last two weeks of April, 1945. Also a cemetery for over 7,000 soldiers, the memorial offers a eerily serene landscape in which to enjoy Berlin’s pleasant summer weather and serves as a remembrance of the more than 70,000 people who died in Berlin April 16 - May 2, 1945. Alt-Treptow / Berlin
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Beautiful Berlin
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From Oak Bridge, Central Park
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Bougainvillea bonsai at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden visitor center by Weiss/Manfredi Architects
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Steinhardt Conservatory at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
