Handbuch der wildwachsenden Großstadtpflanzen, Institut für Buchkunst 2006. 14 x 24 cm, 136 pp., German

The Handbuch der wildwachsenden Großstadtpflanzen (Handbook of Plants Growing Wild in the City) is a guide to the flora of the city. Although the city seems at first sight a hostile environment for plants, a surprising variety of species not only manages to survive, but are instead thriving. Cities are even a haven for species that do not grow in the surrounding countryside. All that justifies to describe cities as their own ecosystem for plants. 

A large number of the plant species that typically grow in cities are not endemic, meaning that they did not exist in this area before the city was build.

Handbuch der wildwachsenden Großstadtpflanzen (Vitrine) 2021, »Blühstreifen. Zwischen Traum & Zaun: Gärten im Fokus der Kunste«, curated by Susanne Knorr, Kunsthalle Erfurt 2021

Handbuch der wildwachsenden Großstadtpflanzen (Biologische Invasionen), »Urbane Gewächse«, curated by Christoph Schaden, Alfred-Erhard-Stiftung, 2010

Handbuch der wildwachsenden Großstadtpflanzen (Vitrine) 2009, »Wildnis wird Garten wird Wildnis«, curated by Janos Frecot, Art Cologne 2009