The Proeftuin
Garden diary
After winter, I lift the woollen blankets off the vegetable garden beds. Here it is alive and swarming; last year’s dead leaves have been digested into fertile soil. In a tangle and interweaving of mouse and worm corridors, the centipedes dust off.
Fig 1.
Michiel Blumenthal, The Artist Plant Conservatory, 2025
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