Bryana Breathes Design LLC

Synthesis

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Inspired by plants

This week I planted potatoes with my kids, I harvested more broccoli and it’s leaves, I watered my marjoram, basil, and rosemary. I also planted carrots. I checked on my tulips and garlic. They are happily tucked away. I’m waiting for some more potatoes, my fancy Certified Organic Yukon Gold potatoes to develop better eyes before I make a new organic bed to plant them in.

Some of my seedlings (the herbs) are struggling with the light being too far away from them so they’re stretching. I’m not ready to thin them out yet either. I pulled some snapdragons and violas from last season to compost. I also have more to pull from containers in the front (dusty miller, pansies, and more snapdragons).

I’m realizing that I may have more room to grow than I thought, especially after clearing out some space. Hanging lights is a challenge but everything needed to grow the seed is already there. By having an abundance of seeds started, rooms to grow will appear.

Inspired by people

When I’m driving around town, all I imagine are places to grow plants. Places neglected and untouched by people. My thinking is not necessarily plants over people, but that plants invite people. It’s not human versus nature, it’s human-nature.

It reminds me of the song I probably first heard from Barney, And the Green Grass Grows All Around—there was a hole in the middle of the ground, the prettiest hole that you ever did see. Then the tree and the branch and the nest and the bird… The holes that we leave in our community is space for life to reemerge.

More outside please

As false springs bring hope and summer planning to light, meeting the reality of expensive national/state park trips, I need to see nature in our every day commute. More than the forests of undeveloped and commercially available land, more than the trees planted after paving over all the others, more than the easy, overgrown, evergreen shrubs and groundcover that climbs over forgotten spaces.