Field notes / No. 06A garden somewhere outside Berlin, Germany52° 31′ N
01 — Notes from the garden

Things in season.

A notebook of flowers, weather and the little changes you only notice when you come back outside every day.

900 m² · Brandenburg
Written as the garden grows

/01
A richly layered pink peony in full bloom
EARLY SUMMER

Peonies

Paeonia

“A week, maybe two”

The peonies never stay long. I have stopped trying to make them. Now I just keep the vase close.

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/02
A spherical purple allium flower in full bloom
LATE SPRING

Ornamental alliums

Allium

“Small planets overhead”

Their violet globes hover above the border just as everything else is waking up.

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/03
An orange daylily open in the summer sun
HIGH SUMMER

Daylilies

Hemerocallis

“One day is enough”

A new flower opens every morning. By evening, it has already given everything.

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