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.
short article: Pink Lady’s Slipper Pollination (Mary Holland/Naturally Curious) Only about 5% of lady’s slippers are pollinated each year.
essay: May Pollinator Support (Cathy Weston/Goldenrod Garden) Weston assesses how her Cape Cod garden meet the needs of birds and pollinators with native plants that are actually growing (and flowering) in spring (late April and May). Some of the earliest are red maple flowers as well as wild plants that grow in the lawn.
plant ID tool: New England Wetland Plants (in South Hadley, MA). This is a wholesale nursery but if you go to the pulldown list of Plants you can learn a lot about native New England trees, shrubs, ferns, and herbaceous plants that thrive in “a wide range of habitats from emergent wetland to drier uplands.”
essay: What’s the weirdest thing growing in your garden? Roman roots, Incan blooms and other botanical experiments (Boaz Frankel/Rootbound) It’s an intriguing question for gardeners to ponder. His: Honeywort, skirret, salsify, tarwi, sugarcane. “I’m eating the same skirret roots that Roman Emperor Tiberius enjoyed in his meals!”
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