The House Changes Shape
On growing up, letting go, and the rooms they leave behind
Gremily Bee
Humorous, short-ish essays and original digital botanical illustrations celebrating gardening, nature, and the strange creatures that make both possible. Equal parts horticulture, art, and gothic mischief. gremilybee.etsy.com
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On Art, Gardening, and Continuing Out of Spite
A few thoughts on motivation, failure, and making things anyway
Things the Victorians Were Right About, Unfortunately
An unwilling tribute to ferns, wax seals, poisonous flowers, and glorious excess
I Went Inside to Make Art and the Garden Seized Power
At some point this summer, I abandoned the garden.
The Orchid Mantis Enters the Chat
Nature Made a Flower, Then Gave It Knives
Apparently the Garden Has Followed Me Indoors
When I was a teenager, my mother once begged me to paint chili peppers around the border of her kitchen.
Somebody Bought My Art, and Now I Must Locate a Cardboard Tube
How do I mail a 16-by-20-inch piece of paper?
Blackberries: A Botanical Hostile Takeover
There is something suspicious about a plant that offers you a warm, sun-softened blackberry while simultaneously removing a strip of skin from your forearm.
What the Dutch Masters Knew About Rotting Fruit
The Dutch masters understood something modern life is forever trying to conceal: fruit is most interesting when it has begun to go bad.
The Garden Has Entered Its Baroque Period
Everything is overgrown, overdressed, and behaving as though restraint were invented by cowards.
Obituaries for Plants I've Killed
A brief remembrance of the lavender, rosemary, and other innocent victims of my horticultural confidence.
Gardening as a Socially Acceptable Form of Necromancy
On bulbs, buried things, suspicious rituals, and the annual return of the dead