This year there will again be two installments — to establish an annual cycle. I had initially anticipated organizing some sort of summer 2024 event in relationship to this project, but then decided I would prefer to cultivate this slowly, and allow it to establish a legacy and a personality (however fragmented).
I'm not looking for any cohesion in how contributors treat this project -- quite the opposite: I'd like for Botanical Readiness to be a college (in the old sense of the word) of correspondents, that can realign "gardening" and "botany" according to their own personal framework. Including ways that are matter-of-fact, unadulterated horticulture itself.
My initial inspiration:
Documentation and reflections upon gardening and plantlife excursions. Upcoming garden designs. Research artifacts. Advice and good reads. Things that could legitimately find a home in a genuine gardening magazine, or plant enthusiast publication.
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Cryptic and enigmatic artifacts. Pure abstractions, perhaps reframed as astral or occult influences. Opposing gravitational interjections for their own sake.
My notions last fall:
