Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. Unless mentioned, all links should be free of paywalls.
essay (and recipe): The third stair, shortbread, Turkish rocket, and a shallow creamy, crunchy gratin (Mark Diacono/Abundance) Ten years after his father died, Diacono wrote about it: “I had the urge to write about the day, partly, I think, so that I might not lose it to the tide of time. At that point, I don’t think I appreciated that writing can not only help you understand the world and your place in it, but it can reveal things previously hidden to your conscious brain.” Plus an asparagus and Turkish rocket (arugula) gratin recipe.
photo essay: Ginna’s Native Garden Paradise (Nuts for Natives). “Ginna Tiernan [Director of the Eastern Shore’s native plant treasure, Adkins Arboretum.] has created a paradise of a garden on the third of an acre she shares with her family in the heart of Easton, Maryland. She has planted about 50 trees yet her garden has big swaths of sun loving perennials too.” She’s got a paw paw grove and a moss & fern garden under her air conditioner condensation drip pipe.
photo article: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 medal winners and awards (GardenersWorld). Many many awards, including for a Japanese tea garden, a dog garden, Jo Thompson’s glasshouse garden, charity gardens, plant gardens designed with “an emphasis on plants that are unusual and specialist,” et al. Several embedded videos and audio/podcast clips.
photo essay: The Bohemian Life in Big Sur, 1959 (Life). Yoga, nudity, dancing, the arts, hermits, and a gorgeous landscape.
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