The Genuine Article

Barley, a dog, sniffs at the base of a low wall made of concrete pavers and covered in moss.

There’s an aesthetic to overgrow that speaks to my, because it is nearly impossible to fake. You can’t buy this sort of growth, it’s the sort of thing that only time can provide. Clearly, theres a balance (climbing vines can compromise brickwork, for example), but all told, I prefer the gentle dereliction of cultivated overgrowth to the antisceptic austerity of LEGO architecture.