life
gardening
gardening June 29, 2024
A contemplative case for winter gardening
The winter gardener rejects textbook directives to withdraw and attend to her tools, and instead nurtures the tiny perfection of the garden to come.
gardening May 4, 2024
A time of year for gathering in and letting go
The shortest day of the year approaches as an invitation for the gardener to consolidate – to do less, better.
gardening March 23, 2024
The liminal spaces are where interesting things happen, where change is effected – in the garden, as in life.
gardening February 10, 2024
Memories sharpened by grief offer glimpses of a home and a garden that were the fruits of love and labour.
gardening December 23, 2023
Time away from the garden allows weeds, like dust, to gather – a reminder of the limits of control and how everything ultimately yields to the life cycle.
gardening November 11, 2023
The curl of possum tails around branches evokes for the author the unsettling sentience of climbing plants and things that grasp.
gardening September 30, 2023
Life in the garden is about the balance of seasonal temperatures, light and shade, kindness and cruelty – and sometimes it’s about the spaces in-between.
gardening August 12, 2023
Determined not to add to her pile of plastic pots, the author embarks on the meditative practice that is raising seedlings.
gardening July 8, 2023
In the midst of a deathly, monotone winter, life is getting ready to burst out – including the narcissists of the plant world.
gardening May 27, 2023
The moth vine casts its shadow over the garden, from which the author manages to salvage a benediction.
gardening April 15, 2023
What began as a fresh and neatly paved area transformed over the years into a lived space of success, failure and memory.
