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: Let’s explore Walshaw moor!: Britain’s secret national park in all but status is a West Yorkshire wildlife haven of grassland and peat moor habitats (Jack Wallington/Wild Way). The moor, whose Top Withens ruined house is widely considered the inspiration for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, is located between Burnley and Halifax in West Yorkshire, in the middle of the UK, centered among the major cities Manchester, Leeds, and York. It’s got lapwings, curlews, owls, frogs, toads, adders, stoats (ermines), and weasels. Let’s go!
essay with photos: How To Propagate Herbs Through Stem Cuttings (Stephanie Rose/Garden Therapy). Easy peasy.
essay: Cut-leaved toothwort (Hiker’s Notebook). About this early spring ephemeral, Cardamine concatenata, aka cut-leaved toothwort, pepperwort, pepper-root, spring blossom, lady’s smock, milkmaid, large toothwort.
photo essay: Front Gardens Re-Imagined (Karen Chapman/Le Jardinet). Ideas from around the U.S. for front gardens: 1. edibles on show, using plant elements (variety, repetition, colours, definite shape of garden, evergreens, foliage that resembles annuals or perennials) and infrastructure elements (planters, patio, fountain) to give the garden four-season interest (and appease HOAs); and 2. the front porch reinvented — even if you don’t have a front porch, maybe you can create a pocket pull-out seating area?
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