Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
video: Firefly Experience (Radim Schreiber/YouTube). In about 3 minutes, Schreiber shows how he sets up for and captures the magic of fireflies blinking in the night.
article: Leucanthemum vulgare | ox-eye daisy (Jack Wallington/Wild Way). “My ultimate reliable daisy, the easy and edible summer wonder.” It spreads everywhere but as Wallington says, it goes with everything. In my yard, it gravitates to the cracks between patio slabs. Here’s a photo from my garden taken recently with three different insects enjoying a daisy flower.
article: A Viburnum for You and You and Youuuuu (Lauren Dubinsky/Floricult). “A photo tour of the most overlooked shrub.” My own focus is on native viburnums — here in New England, these include Viburnum acerifolium (maple-leaved viburnum), Viburnum opulus (highbush-cranberry), Viburnum dentatum (smooth arrowwood), Viburnum lantanoides (hobblebush), Viburnum cassinoides var. nudum (witherod), and Viburnum lentago (nannyberry) — but here Dubinsky highlights some ornamental varieties and hybrids, mostly V. plicatum species, as well as a V. awabuki variety, a V. macrocephalum (which looks like a hydrangea), several V. davidii x tinus patented varieties, and a Proven Winners V. dentatum variety called ‘Glitters & Glows.’ I recently wandered a garden planted with Korean spice viburnum (V. carlesii) and it really is a heavenly scent.
photos: 50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1974 (The Atlantic). (Paywalled but three free articles for non-subscribers per month). There was a lot going on then.
essay: On the art of growing weeds (Andrew Timothy O’Brien/Bramble & Briar). “I guess the thing is that I’m fascinated by the idea of a garden in miniature – a meadow in a trough, a lawn in a butler’s sink, a fully functioning flowerbed, weeds and all, in a window box, left to grow there season after season, rather than being filled with colourful bedding bought in bud and consigned to the compost heap the moment the petals fall.” Also, don’t think you can just plant a dandelion in a pot and it’s going to be anything more than resentful.
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