March seedlings have a way of making the whole gardening year feel suddenly physical. One week the packets are still paper promises. The next week, a tray on the windowsill is full of thin green stems lifting paired little leaves above the soil. They are so small that it is easy to treat them as decoration. In fact, they are…
By late December, a houseplant can look both present and paused. The pothos is still green. The snake plant still stands like a row of quiet blades. The fern still catches light with all its small hands. Nothing has died, exactly, but the room has changed around them. The window is colder. The sun leaves early. The heater dries the…
