It was a Christmas gift from their great-aunt but when they arrived home my children (then c.9 and 10 years old) handed it immediately to me—a small Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis) with the potential to grow to 40m. The ancient pine species had been discovered in 1994 and its exact location kept secret to keep… Continue reading To be moved…but to survive?
Month: July 2023
Here we are in Winter– part 2
I rake and sweep and blow mounds on leaf litter in being. The deciduous trees have dropped the work of the Summer months, their leaves, the sun eaters, the photosynthesis containers, the sugar generators that feed them and the world—so they can rest for a while. Even the evergreen trees are perhaps dropping leaves, the… Continue reading Here we are in Winter– part 2
Here we are in Winter– part 1
The wisteria has lost its foliage and the jacaranda is in the process of losing its. The chaotic frame of the wisteria is revealed hanging over, weaving through the branches of its host. My eye wants to find some sort of order or logic to it but there is none other than a plant logic… Continue reading Here we are in Winter– part 1