Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
short article: Native Plant Garden 10 Years In: 5 Lessons Learned (Nuts for Natives). I know the third one is true (the value of repeating plants) but with a limited budget and an unlimited interest in the variety of plants, I don’t enact it; although now, after 14 years here, my plants are starting to make it happen themselves by spreading and reproducing into masses.
essay: Keeping the Long Midwinter (Katherine May/The Clearing). A little history and five suggestions for honouring this passage, this pause in the year.
photo essay: A small city meadow garden by Jenny Bloom (Kate jacobs & Richard Bloom/Gardens Illustrated). A lovely small shady and meadowy garden in north London. Want that boardwalk path.
essay: A Love Song for Deborah (Michael Tobin/The Free Press). “After my wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, I nearly gave in to despair. Until I found the one thing that awakened her.”
photo essay: In the icelight – the only bloom (Freya Rohn, The Ariadne Archive). Odes to ice ferns.
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