How pine trees can also be a kind of ‘weed’, if a weed is a thing / plant / being that strangles, proliferates opportunistically.
Of interest for this section: chapter Landscape Without Life by Cameron Allan McKean, chapter Re-naturalising Cities by Katherine Sundermann and Andrew Reynolds, chapter Listening to Landscape by Uncle Dave Wandin.
Famous gardener, writer, teacher’s recent reflections on gardening and the garden. Thinking through ideas of possessions, naming plants is a way of possessing them.
The regenerative agriculture movement as opposed to extractive agriculture. “(...) founded on the principle that we can’t squeeze every possible harvestable unit from the land. Part of what we grow must go back into the soil [...]”.
A documentary featuring Michael Pollan, looks at “our connection to domesticated plants from the plants' perspective”.
Tour of Isabel and Julian Bannerman’s garden. What is a weed? How is nature treated in gardens? How should it be? What is a successful, a great garden?
Symposium as part of the program General Ecologies by the Serpentine Gallery.