plants + prose

plants + prose is a newsletter about the intersection of botany, literature, and place

By charlotte taylor fryar

on re-starting a journal

a newsletter update ft. Thoreau's journals, teleological writing, and shrub oaks

Jun 18

✽ there is no spring like spring in d.c. ✽

on a book's birthday + a washington nature-writing classic + bluebells

Apr 3

a dispatch from the potomac sewage spill

from a mile downriver of the largest sewage spill in US history

Feb 16

🌀 a year of spiraling 🌀

on spirals, the Fibonacci sequence, 2025 reads, and more year-in-review thoughts

Jan 26

a garden report

on convivial tools, AI, Virginia Woolf, and beans

Nov 14, 2025

still late summer, not yet the fall

on crickets, seventy-two Japanese micro-seasons, and the federal occupation of D.C.

Sep 18, 2025

midsummer missive

is a river alive? + summer reading + quilts, botanical gossip, new writing

Jul 15, 2025

everything i read in february 2025

on bearing witness to totalitarianism ✧ being a woman in the woods ✧ the utility of "asian-american" as a racial category ✧ two films about tru luv <3

Mar 11, 2025

things I am doing to feel better

six salves for Washington, D.C.-specific despair

Feb 12, 2025

everything i read in january 2025

on teenage-years re-reading ✧ feminism v. humanism ✧ questions as titles ✧ ++ three film reviews

Feb 3, 2025

america is out on the ice

on the inauguration & the limits of studying history

Jan 27, 2025

winter tree

on tree buds and attention + book reviews & events

Jan 8, 2025

where are we going?

on marvin gaye, the election, and the future of D.C. statehood

Nov 5, 2024

a short guide to the summer solstice

on midsummer, Adams Morgan, Leo Lionni, and herbs for the solstice

Jun 19, 2024