Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
article: The Evergreen Christmas Fern (Susan Shea/Northern Woodlands). Polystichum acrostichoides, commonly seen here in winter.
short video: panda playing in snow (mille_lieux_nature/Instagram).
short video: the miracle of plant wisdom (purcellartgallery/Instagram). “Look around! Think. Think something new about old things.”
photo essay: A Living Fossil in a Snowglobe: A visit to a botanical garden in Helsinki (Boaz/ Frankel/ ). Visiting Helsinki’s Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden, including seeing the living fossil called tree tumbo or welwitschia (Welwitschia mirabilis), the only remaining specimen left in its genus, family, and order. (At the garden’s website, you can take a virtual tour of the Change in the Air exhibition, about the changing climate, how species are responding, and how they’re responded or not in the past to climate shifts.)
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