The art of propagation

The big news this year is that I am the Artist in Residence at UBC Botanical Garden. The (somewhat loose) … More

Gardens are social media

A few years ago, the first full summer we lived in Sherbrooke, my husband and I built a wooden planter … More

Archaeologies of urban landscape

Hinge Park, as if the past was present (Nicole Crawford, 2019)  This past summer I taught a special topics course … More

Landscapes of inattention

Two papers of mine recently appeared in academic journals. Both have been a long time coming to print, so maybe … More

Climate change and the many solitudes of Canada

Last summer, my family and I moved from Sherbrooke to Vancouver. Sherbrooke is a city of 150,000 people, located in the … More

What is landscape criticism and what can it do?

Last year I published an essay on the alternative news website, Rabble. After much thought and with more than a little … More

Collective gardening as research

Last summer, my husband and I built a small garden-on-wheels: it was a large rectangular planter mounted on the wheel … More

The work of gardening

For the first time in my life, I have my own garden. That is, my first garden larger than a … More

What does it mean to think critically about plants and landscape and why should we keep doing it?

I have been doing a kind of plant-focused landscape criticism for a number of years now. Plants are essential to human … More

On leaving Scotland

Life in Quebec is easier than life in Scotland, and therefore happier; it feels like home. I am not sorry we … More