PressedFog

Coastside botanical rooms
Half Moon Bay, California

Pressed-plant & seed shop / HMB

Keep the coast
flat enough
to study.

Fern from canyon shade. Poppy from the bluff. Kelp carried above the tide line. Each one dried, laid, and given a place on paper.

Open the specimen folio
An open field notebook holding a pressed fern, with handwritten botanical notes, a dip pen, inkwell, and kraft envelopes on a worn worktable
Work table no. 01Fern / iron-gall / field book

The sheet is the work. Look before you lift it.

From the field cabinet

Four coastside studies.

Full folio sheets, kept large enough to read. The old marks stay where they were found; new notes live at the edge.

  1. 01 Bracken Pteridium aquilinum Canyon shade
  2. 02 California poppy Eschscholzia californica Coastal bluff
  3. 03 Giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera Tide line
  4. 04 Yarrow Achillea millefolium Coastal prairie

02 / seed drawer

Packeted by hand

Three names in pencil.

Poppy, yarrow, and sea kale. Folded into kraft and kept clear of the damp.

Look in the seed drawer