Trees, too: post-glacial ‘native’ species are struggling in Ldn at least. Kew’s Future Species (based on 2090 projections) is introducing Caucasian/other species or seeds of ‘native’ species. It resurrects the black locust, ex-Municipal ‘weed’ now essential species for ‘resilience’. Rooted/routed…
“Plants keep time in their bodies but it’s not the same as what this new, warped version of spring allows them to keep. Things are changing too fast for plants’ evolutionary time-memories to keep up.”
Feb 1, 2026 15:24in Imperial histories of course, linked directly to Jamestown, genocide, etc. Now in favour again as a saviour of liveability in London. Anyway! There must be plant equivalents? We should all talk more about these materialised forests and future forests, emerging from within the former, no? Etc.!
