From Gardens Where We Feel Secure

From Gardens Where We Feel Secure

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From Gardens Where We Feel Secure is gardener and writer Susanna Grant\x27s exploration of her thinking on history, value and meaning of nature in the city. Examining the premise that naming species allows us to expand our understanding, our interest, our ways of looking at the world around us, and the idea of plant\-blindness\-our tendency not to see what we can\x27t name in the nature that surrounds us\-she throws a spotlight on five of her favourite wildflowers with accompanying images by photographer Rowan Spray. These stories are interspersed with reflections on Grant\x27s own countryside childhood and her work in London\x27s community gardens: why we can\x27t walk where we want to, planting as an act of resistance and, above all, the necessity of weeds and their beauty.