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.
article: A newly discovered role for tension wood: the “muscle” trees use to correct their posture (INRAE – the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) Plants exhibit proprioception and they can adjust their posture! “[T]he findings show how plants — under natural conditions — finely perceive their own shape and combine this information with signals relating to their orientation to adjust their posture … Proprioception is the sense through which living organisms perceive the position of their body parts, and it was long believed to be specific to animals. In 2012, a research team … demonstrated that plants also possess this ability…. However, the biological mechanism governed by this proprioception remained unknown.”
essay: September 2026 Newsletter: Highlights from being in the south of France … and being floored back in Paris (David Lebovitz) ooh la la, the food, the photos, the mosquitos, ice and doggy bags, 10 gallons of ripe figs, and a polished concrete floor that needs to be sealed.
article: Hay-Scented Fern (Dennstaedtia punctiloba) (William Needham/Hiker’s Notebook) Did you know that ferns are ‘chromosome hoarders’?
photo essay: IZNIK KNACK: Carolina Irving’s Paris Apartment (Hamish Bowles & Clément Vayssieres/The World of Interiors) “A trove of trinkets and textiles, antique portraits and fritware pottery, Carolina Irving’s apartment in a bon-ton part of Paris is so richly layered, indeed so very Bosphorescent, it might almost be taken for a pasha’s palace.” Too maximalist for me to live in I think (and certainly not something I want to dust) but it sure is eye candy. [You can also see some of her Manhattan apartment.]
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