The text of this post was originally published on the website of UBC Botanical Garden. This past summer, as part … More
Tag: horticultural media
The tomatoes between us (excerpt)
Last year, in the early days of the pandemic, I accidentally grew many more tomato seedlings than I could plant … More
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
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
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
Reading urban plants for soil conditions
I have been helping out with a public arts initiative during Glasgow International (festival of visual arts). Soil City is … More