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essay/challenge: The One-Hour Square Meter Photography Challenge! (Chris Helzer/The Prairie Ecologist) This is really a noticing exercise; photos are optional. “Can you mark out a square meter and photograph (or draw, or write about) everything you can find in an hour? It doesn’t have to be in a prairie. It can be a potted plant or two on your apartment balcony. It can be a corner of your neighborhood park. Just find a little spot, settle in for an hour, and see what you can find!” I would have loved to have done this with the Piet Oudolf-designed meadow garden at the Delaware Botanic Gardens last week.
images: Curated Collection: Bunch of Bouquets (Danielle Krysa/Jealous Curator) “porcelain (?!) bouquets by Anna Volkova, painted wildflowers by Michelle Morin, wilting glass by Lilla Tabasso, cut ‘n pasted florals by Emily Filler, and spoons turned into blooms by Ann Carrington.”
recipe/essay: RECIPE: Mitchell’s Sunburst Pasta with Saffron (Mitchell Davis/Kitchen Sense) Looks like a great way to use sungold tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes, and yellow or orange bell peppers.
photo essay: An Exuberant Native Garden (Shari Wilson/Nuts for Natives) Rujuta and Rahul, both neuroscientists living in Towson, Maryland, transformed their “typical suburban tableau” into first a native garden to harness rainwater and then in 2023 they took out their entire front lawn and replanted with natives, including the very tall Joe Pye weed, New York Ironweed, lobelias, blue vervain, sea oats, mountain mint, and cutleaf coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) — the latter of which has done fantastic in my garden here in NH, too — as well as shrubs like elderberry, cranberry viburnum, and beautyberry around their three-tiered pond.
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