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 piece: Common Milkweed’s Pollination Mechanism (Mary Holland/Naturally Curious)
photo essay: A Contemporary Medicinal Garden (Karen Chapman/Le Jardinet) The Physic Garden at Littlethorpe Manor in rural Ripon, England. Formal, with bold and effective design elements.
article: A Meal Worth the Sting (Colby Galliher/The Outside Story/Northern Woodlands) “A number of our bird species, then, eat a non-negligible amount of stinging bees and wasps. So how do they do it?”
article with photos: Coquille Devil (Bertrand Raison/The World of Interiors) “Recently retired and divorced, François Botherel could have just marked his new-found freedom by treating himself to a sports car, say, or taking up golf. But non, that might have been too predictable by half. Instead, he began obsessively collecting and colour-coding thousands of shells before encrusting every inch of his 1980s house in Brittany with them. … After growing up by the sea, Botherel worked as a data processor for IBM in the Paris region, just like his uncle. He was credited with making a breakthrough in the field that allowed him to take early retirement at the age of 55, when he decided to return to Plouescat, build his house, file for divorce and slowly occupy himself with what would eventually become an obsession.”
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