'The Remembered Garden'

This piece was built differently. The ground was painted green first — a garden wall before any flower was placed, a structure to receive them. Privet blooms arrived first, small and white, the ones no one thinks to press but which hold their shape better than almost anything. Then gooseneck loosestrife with its aristocratic curve, its strange arching neck. Then forget-me-nots, blue, because there are always forget-me-nots in a garden that is trying to remember something.

Verbena for the heat of the season. Hydrangea because a garden without it feels unfinished. The silver bezel and silver chain are not decoration; they are the frame that says this is not a passing thing. The green ground underneath all of it is the garden. Everything growing in it is what the garden kept.

Belonging to the Folklore lineage — pieces built around painted grounds and deliberate memory — this is the most complex Floraglyph in the collection. It took as long as gardens take.

This Floraglyph is for the woman who has built something beautiful once and has been tending it ever since.