June 23 Finally, in Port Medway… Two months later than originally planned. The flight from Toronto was a ghost flight – a pandemic plane with a handful of masked, sepulchral, passengers scattered through the rows of seats. Halifax airport, empty, half-lit… Persicaria, cottage garden with viburnum, barberry etc and seaside garden with meadow sage, false …
Beach Meadows, June 8, 2020 Dear Philip, As promised, I’m sending along photos of the woodland gardens along with a gallery of the butterbur: marvel, nemesis. Once again, it is encroaching on the gardens so I guess I’ll be yanking some of that up in November. Nothing like a garden which can be at once a mindful …
Beach Meadows, May 30, 2020Dear Philip,Thanks for the NY Times piece on weeds: T’is the season and I had made a point of photographing as many as I could when I was shooting in the gardens, thinking it would be a good blog post (and an excuse for me to finally research and learn the ones …