A vase of tulips rarely stays where you put it. Arrange it in the evening and the stems may look composed: upright enough, tidy enough, each flower holding its own small cup of color. By the next morning, one bloom has leaned toward the window, another has climbed above the rest, and a third has made a soft curve over…
By late January, a houseplant can start to reveal the shape of the room. The pothos that looked evenly full in October now has most of its newest leaves tilted toward the glass. A philodendron sends one vine across the sill while the back of the pot goes quiet. A jade plant slowly becomes a green question mark, leaning into…
