Field Notes No. 4 — Gardens That Transform You

Hello Reader, There are four tiny pots of verbena bonariensis under my grow lights right now that look like almost nothing. Just tiny leaves reaching above the soil. No indication whatsoever of what they will become. But I can already see them — three feet tall, swaying in the breeze, covered in butterflies, doing exactly what verbena bonariensis does in late summer when it becomes something close to a miracle. The garden doesn't exist yet. But I can see it perfectly in my mind. Verbena...