✦ Lady’s Mantle ✦
Lady’s Mantle and I first met at Jewell Gardens way back in 2002. She’d already been planted along the edge of the boardwalk in “Paradise Alley”—once a real place in Skagway, Alaska where ladies of the night made their living. At Jewell Gardens Paradise Alley, the eccentric, artist owner Charlotte planted red Geraniums for the “red-light district.” She also seeded Nasturtiums into antique bed frames, creating “Nasty beds” which were in the little houses, or cribs….read THE REST on substack: HERE