Wildflower Beauty and the Search for Home – by David George Haskell
This week, biologist David George Haskell brings us into the tangled histories and biological rhythms of four wildflowers that grow around his home in Atlanta, Georgia, revealing how each is rooted within webs of innovative, reciprocal relationships between hummingbirds, puddles, bee tongues, and human hands. Tracing how these heralds of spring have adapted to new climate conditions and new neighbors, he invites us to seek the stories of the flowers where we live to ground ourselves in the shifting realities shaping us too.Read the essay. Discover our latest print edition, Volume 6: Seasons.Hear more from David on the seasons and wildflowers in his conversation with Dara McAnulty and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.Image caption: Aquilegia coerulea
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