Below the Trillium Garden - A Mycelial Landscape, 2024
In the North Berkley Hills at the Blake Garden under a stand of towering redwood trees in early Spring you'll find a patch of red trillium blooming. Once in a while, I met with a friend at this shady spot where we spent an hour to converse - to observe a tiny stream widening into a puddle framed by ferns and wild grasses.
We sat on a rough log, watched the water mirroring quivering branches, smudges of blue sky passing by, puffy clouds building up and vanishing again. We fell in tune with the rhythm of the trees - breathing in and out, transporting water, photosynthesizing the sun's energy.
Trillium is a genus of some 50 species (wood lily, birthwort, toad shade) of perennial herbs. The three large leaf-like bracts are arranged in a whorl that rises directly from the rhizome. Please take a close look while leafing through the book - you might find your very own Trillium Garden.
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