Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
photo essay: It’s houses to drool over on the British coastline (The Sophist). Let’s look at some pretty, quirky, and colourful houses near the sea in the UK, in Wales, Cornwall, Kent (Margate and Deal), and the Isle of Skye, shall we? Bonus: Airstream. Also, “What’s a little chaos and decay amongst friends. Honestly. Anyone would think you people were afraid of death.” I’ll take the Deal Georgian cottage, please (check out the rest of its photos at the link she provides; it’s already been removed by the estate agent but when I last checked one could still scroll through the photos).
essay with photos: Five Native Substitutes for Popular Spring Flowers! (Nuts for Natives). Spicebush instead of forsythia (but beware — you need both male and female shrubs for flowers; I have five spicebush and they are all the same gender apparently); Virginia Bluebells Instead of Siberian Squill and Hyacinth; Wood Poppies instead of Daffodils; Foamflower (Tiarella) Instead of Snowdrops; and Trillium instead of Tulips. All of her recommendations prefer some shade.
art: some floral paintings by Clare Woods. As someone else said, “mesmerized by the blobby realism.”
essay with photos: Plant Profile: Mountain Mint (Cathy Weston/Goldenrod Garden). She discusses three mountain mints: Short-leaved (or Blunt-leaved) Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum); Virginia Mountain Mint or Common Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum viginiana); and Slender Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium), the latter of which I also have in my garden and love.
featured photo by T. Williams
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