Unknown Berlin # 78 - Gardeners to the Front !! by billcody

Photography • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Sep 09, 2011

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hi friends, Berlinians have a special relationship to their pets - and to their plants. If someone of the 400 000 trees in our streets must be cut down it means troublewith the residents there - tree for tree! Countless Berlinians engage in gardening - in their regular gardens, in backyards, on balconies and even in front of their houses. In some neighbourhoods, especially the better ones, it was ordered by law that there has to be a front garden with iron fence, when they built this houses 100 years ago. Today you can see a lot of jewels if you keep your eyes open - like this one here. The garden here is situated in Berlin - Rixdorf, a part of the District Neukoelln, a city with 350 000 inhabitants in the south of Berlin. The houses in the background are city villas, built around 1870. They are all historical buildings, of course. Neukoelln is not well respected in Berlin; manny of the people are immigrants, the schools are lousy and there is a lot of criminality. But among there are oasises like these here. When I took the pictures here, two civil policemen controlled two drug dealers and arrested them, only 10 meters beside.... Hope you like this pic and the Berlin series, it was pure pleasure to create it for the last four years (And it kept the doctor away LOL) Thanks for your comments for my last pictures; feel free to send new ones, they are always appreciated Thanks! billcody, Berlin

Comments (12)

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Feliciti

5:03PM | Fri, 09 September 2011

ohja ich nehme die villa mit dem wunderschönen unordentlichen garten vorne an dazu , aber bitte ohne dealer ;).... toller einblick !!

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wotan

5:13PM | Fri, 09 September 2011

Very beautiful shot and place!

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MOSKETON

5:58PM | Fri, 09 September 2011

GENIAL.

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jayfar

1:47AM | Sat, 10 September 2011

A super pic of a very neat but 'full' garden

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pat40

3:45AM | Sat, 10 September 2011

So pretty.

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anmes

3:46AM | Sat, 10 September 2011

Wonder4ful capture of a city garden. this is a private space, but I remember being told on a tour of your city that one third was a green area. And if this activity keeps the doc..keeps going!! Love the insight of Berlin life.

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