FOR THE GREEN THUMB
ON THE NECESSITY OF GARDENING: AN ABC OF ART, BOTANY AND CULTIVATION
Laurie Cluitmans, Valiz, $53.75
Most of what gardeners want to know can be found on YouTube, so picking the ideal book to give for Christmas becomes a case of looking for something out of the ordinary.
Cluitmans is a curator at the Centraal Museum in the Netherlands. You never know what you’re going to find on the white pages: Guerrilla Gardens, Chthulucene (have a guess), Vibrant Matter. On the blue pages, there are op-eds, sometimes oblique; ‘staying with the trouble’ isn’t what happens in gardens, surely… they’re zones of peace.
I’d love to see manuals as quirky and informative as this one from each of our major museums – an alphabet of items to be found on display, how they were sourced and
