The Notebook
Loosely dated, honestly captioned — this is a working notebook, not a portfolio. Full essays that grew out of these notes are linked where they exist.
Nemesia
The Fussy One
Fast to bloom, fast to sulk if the heat comes in — the highest-maintenance thing in the bed this year.
Tulips
Rushed
Came up early and paid for it. A note on what happens when a bulb — or a launch — skips a stage.
Driveway Strip
The Land Nobody Wanted
The strip that shows up in Bouquet Thinking and Garden Thinking — infilled, slowly, on its own schedule.
Mixed Bed
No Monoculture
Deliberately mixed rather than matched — the opposite instinct from a tidy, single-variety border.
Greenhouse
Where the Experiments Start
Everything unproven gets tried here first, under cover, before it earns a spot in a real bed.
Blind Bloom
The One That Didn't Open
Gardeners call a bud that never opens "blind." Worth a note precisely because it's a failure, not despite it.
Cut Bouquet
Burgundy, From the Garden Bed
The garden-grown counterpart to the desk bouquet — same instinct, grown rather than bought.
Daffodils
The One Everyone Pictures
The calibration problem from The Wrong Daffodil, in its original, literal form.
Bed Planning
Avoiding Concentration Risk
An economist's instinct applied to a flower bed: no single variety gets to be the whole season's bet.
From the Notebook to the Page