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Pond life
We are blessed with two ponds at Crossbones: the infinity pond (below left) and the eco pond (below right). The infinity pond sits directly beneath the pyramid in the garden’s north-west corner, placing a downward facing triangle at the foot of an upward facing one, gesturing to earth and sky simultaneously, bridging the realms inhabited by the dead and the living. The eco pond nestles around the edge of the Goose’s Wing, which draws visitors to Crossbones into a protective embrace as they enter the site.…
Teasel
This beautiful profile of a teasel was drawn by one of our attendees at a recent biodiversity monitoring event at Crossbones.
Over the first winter that I was coming to know Crossbones, I was surprised at first to see a plant that looked dried out and dead left standing. It didn’t fit my idea of what a garden should be. I had grown up in a cultural context in which evidence of death and decay tended to be swept away in gardens, just as death and decay are often swept away in conversation and from being acknowledged as a central tenet of our everyday, embodied, and more-than-human existence.…