6 I’m amplified. I submit a revised manuscript, a paper I’ve been working on for years, I feel like I’ve finally figured out how to untie the knot in its argument and the exhilaration when submitting it threatens to dissolve my cells into the little particles dancing in the light coming in through my dustyContinue reading “Covid activities (i)”
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Edinburgh (i)
5 In a way, one could say this is where it all started. My collection of botanic gardens. Sure, I had visited others before. But this is where I become so obsessively systematic about it. The Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh in 2013. Together with dad, we marveled at the lush June flower beds, andContinue reading “Edinburgh (i)”
Bergius (i)
4 What more suitable botanic garden to start with, than the first one I ever visited as a child, the one run by the university that employs me, the one I stroll through during my lunchtime walks (or at least used to, when going to the office was still a thing one did). Bergius botanicContinue reading “Bergius (i)”
mission statement
3 Botanic gardens. I collect them. Since 2012, I have visited, photographed and written travel journal entries about thirty-three. This is what I will do here: Post photographs from the botanic gardens and write about them, about what they mean to me, about what they make me feel. Literally, and in a more loosely connected,Continue reading “mission statement”
introduction
2 It was during one of those other surreal moments in time, when (forgive me the big word) the Anthropocene came crashing into my life, wrenching emotions out of the rational awareness I’ve had for years: We are in an age of great uncertainty. And things are happening to the biosphere. Stranded in the droughtContinue reading “introduction”
prologue
1 Living in this bubble, now. Self-(semi-)quarantine, shared with the rest of the world, but also my very own, PhD-stage-imposed. In the in-between space of finishing writing a paper and getting a new study started, my days are spent in a mental tennis match of ideas. Those of others, through the scientific papers I read,Continue reading “prologue”
start: Botanic Garden Stories
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Jardin botanique du Parc de la Tête d’Or
Written in October 2018 The botanic garden lies in the Parc de la Tête d’Or in the center of Lyon. The park covers 117 hectares, and the botanic garden only makes up a small portion of that – but the variety of trees, shrubs and water bodies in the rest of the park makes itContinue reading “Jardin botanique du Parc de la Tête d’Or”
a botanical moment
Written in October 2018 Botanical garden of Lyon. There is something special about the stillness in a garden located in the middle of the city. The trees painted yellow by autumn, being reflected in the milky turquoise water of the lake. I can sense, more than hear, the bustle of the streets behind the treesContinue reading “a botanical moment”
Jardin botanique de la Charme in Clermont-Ferrand
Written in October 2018 Situated on the same street as the Michelin head office in an otherwise sleepy residential area of brutalist apartment complexes in suburban Clermont-Ferrand, the tiny Jardin botanique de la Charme is easy to miss. It is small, and at a first glance it looks neglected and forgotten, full of empty flowerbedsContinue reading “Jardin botanique de la Charme in Clermont-Ferrand”
Katja Malmborg 