Into Pieces

I hate the attitude some nursery customers seem to have where if we’re selling them a native plant or a wildflower or a “weed”, we’re ripping them off because they could have gone out and dug it up themselves and these plants are somehow lesser because they haven’t been as extensively cultivated or are not common garden plants or you may walk out in the woods and happen to see one growing wild. The great GREAT majority of “legitimate” garden plants that everyone thinks of first? Cultivated in Europe or native to Asia. There’s nothing wrong with (most) non-native, cultivated garden plants but there’s nothing necessarily better about them either. Basically, shut up lady and buy my Ironweed and Mexican hat or go away

What annoys me most I guess is the idea that a plant you could potentially see on the roadsides around here or has weed in the title like Joe Pye Weed, Milkweed, Big Blue Stem, Ironweed, Cardinal Flower, etc are not “proper” plants to have in a cultivated upper class garden. That plants that actually are perfectly adapted to the climate and the soil are somehow lesser simply by virtue of being common to see growing naturally in an AREA THEY ARE NATIVE TO. Basically, the effects of colonial imperialism are far-reaching and ongoing and not a lot of people think aboit that in regards to something as seemingly mundane as gardening.

How to Look at Art, Arts & Architecture, Ad Reinhardt, January 1947

i saw this image in a dream

I want to dream

i love how half of millenial humor is just thinly veiled cries for help and the other half is dadaist absurdism