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 with photos: Native Perennials That Look Great All Summer Long! (Shari/Nuts for Natives) Three: Amsonia (tabernaemontana or hubrichtii), Spigelia marilandica (Indian pink), and Heuchera (coral bells) ‘Autumn Bride.’ I’ve got A. tabernaemontana (as well as the hybrid Amsonia x ‘Blue Ice’ which has a darker flower) and the Indian pink (after seeing it at Mt Cuba) and I’ll be looking for the ‘Autumn Bride’ Heuchera, especially as it can take full shade.
short essay: Wet and windswept (Andrew Timothy O’Brien/Bramble & Briar) ode to rain: “I snorted lungfuls of petrichor, let the bacteria have its wicked way with my parasympathetic nervous system and imagined it doing something similar to everyone and everything in the garden.”
podcast episode: Heather Holm on Pollinators and Native Plants (Jared Barnes/The Plantastic Podcast) 1-1/2 hour podcast episode of Barnes talking with Holm, who’s published four books on pollinators and native bees and wasps. Perfect for those looking for a deep dive into a topic not often covered in the mainstream. If you don’t have time right now to listen, there’s also a very detailed text list of key topics discussed.
essay: An afternoon in an English botanical garden And thinking about a homesick English woman, a character in one of my short stories (Priyanka Sacheti/A Home For Homeless Thoughts) “In this short story, an English woman living in the newly formed capital New Delhi in 1929 is trying to conjure up an English garden in a soil that stubbornly refuses to do so. She constantly dreams and yearns for a typical English summer garden, her eyes deliberately unseeing the beauty that unspools around her of bougainvillea and orange trumpet clouds, the red gulmohurs and mauve jacarandas, and fiery marigolds, many of them which were transplants like her.”
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