6.24.23. flowering produce with carefully foraged invasives: field mustard Sinapis arvensis, wild garlic Allium vineale, toadflax Linaria vulgaris, flowering and fruiting asparagus Asparagus officianalis,lavender Lavendula spp., seedheads and blooms of Icelandic poppies Papaver nudicaule, false Queen Anne’s lace Ammi majus, and bachelor’s button Centaurea cyanus from cut flower farm, Bloomtown Detroit.

6.24.23.
Allium vineale
field garlic
Asparagus officinalis
asparagus

8.28.22. kitchen lot bouquet, pincushion flower and seedheads Scabiosa atropurpurea, native spotted beebalm Monarda punctuata, self-seeded explosion grass Panicum elegans, and fountain grass Pennisetum alopecuroides.

11.20.22. perennials and self seeders in the garden, cylinder of asparagus Asparagus officianalis, fennel, spent daylily foliage Hemerocallis fulva and maple tar spot leaves.

11.20.22.
Maple tar spot is caused by 3 species of the fungus Rhytisma,
R. acerinum
R. punctatum
R. americanum

6.26.21. last days of spring bouquet: self seeded bachlor’s button Centaurea cyanus, edible scallion and watermelon radish flowers Allium fistulosum and Raphanus sativus, North American native bulb narrowleaf onion Allium amplectens ‘Graceful’, assorted buttercups Ranunculus asiaticus ‘Picotee’, round headed garlic Allium sphaerocephalon, tickseed Coreopsis ‘Full Moon’, and pincushion flowers Scabiosa atropurpurea.

6.26.21.
Gaura lindheimeri ‘Siskiyou Pink’
Beeblossom
Allium vineale
Wild Garlic

5.18.23
Clematis spp.
clematis vine

Free supplemental readings shared with bouquets.

Selection of passages listed below:

Joanna Klein, 2017 (article from The New York Times, ‘A Pioneering Woman of Science Re-Emerges After 300 Years’)

Hagan Knauth, 2020 (Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, ‘Why plant natives? The Ecological Importance of Native Species’)

Ross Gay, 2015 (poem, ‘Sharing with the Ants’)

Sarah Prager, 2020 (jstor passage on ‘Sappho and Violets’ – “a coded reference in the pantheon of female love that endured for centuries”)

The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva, 2011 (NPR, All Things Considered, ‘A Termite Queen and her Ultimate Sacrifice’)

Nils Udo, (translated ideas by eco-artist “Where is the limit on the narrow line between nature and art?”)

Sara Nafici, 2016 (Brooklyn Botanic Garden, ‘Weed of the Month’)

Frank O’Hara, 1950 (illustrative poem, ‘A Small Bouquet’) 

Ed Yong, 2017 (The Atlantic, ‘This Common Butterfly Has an Extraordinary Sex Life’)

Kate Avis Riordan, 2019 (Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, ‘Top Tricksters: Plants Winning at Pollination’)

Elizabeth Gamillo, 2021 (Smithsonian Magazine, ‘These Cockroaches Mate for Life. Their Secret? Mutual Sexual Cannibalism’)

Cheryl Boyce Taylor, 2005 (poem, ‘Wild Sorrel’)

Eugène Marais, 1925 (passage from ‘Soul of the White Ant’)

Alun Salt, 2015 (Botany One, ‘Botanists Uncover the Secrets of Sexual Attraction’)

Ovid, 8 AD (passage from ‘Metamorphoses’ on the death of Hyacinthus)

6.10.21.
Pisum sativum
sugar magnolia tendril pea
Clematis spp.
pitcher clematis