For most of the pandemic, it was possible to stroll around outside and forget how terrible everything was for half an hour—for a whole hour, even, if you didn’t check Twitter. On a sunny Friday in October, a month after the Houston Botanic Garden opened, its 132 acres were teeming with visitors seeking solace in the natural world. A couple on a first date chatted among the thorny phalli of the Cactus Garden. A man walked slow laps in the grassy Coastal Prairie area. Two older women, sitting at a table next to the gift shop, fretted about herd immunity. (“In Sweden they did no masks, and it worked for them,” one said, “but they must have closed the borders too.”) The garden looked young—the…View Original PostThe post Sometimes It’s Hard to Be a Garden appeared first on Texas Monthly.
