Yiyun Li reflects on planting flowers to cope with the loss of her son, and on the horticultural writings of Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence.
“There are some roses,” Brigid said. “Those look like lilies.” “And those are hostas.” There were six or seven rose bushes, with residual flowers, fuchsia-colored, shivering on top of the near-leafless branches. Lilies and hostas, their leaves already paled and half rotted by the cold autumn rain, remained recognizable. The rest of the garden was a wilted mystery, buried under fallen leaves. I was not a character, but I was speaking like one for a reason: I was pondering a set of characters.
” A year later, Lawrence wrote in a letter, “If I have to hear flowers talk, I would rather read Through the Looking-Glass, which is my favorite garden book.” Because of those twenty-five bulbs, garden catalogues began to arrive. One could be realistic: it had taken little time for one’s address to be shared among the nurseries. One could also be romantic: imagine that tentative order of bulbs as a small bugle, announcing a budding gardener.
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