Rootbound Archives
Recovered observations from the edge of reason. Case files, field logs and the occasional plant obituary.
Open the FileA dark botanical archive of motherhood, houseplants and the slow unravelling of both.
Enter the RotThis archive began the way most collapses do: quietly, and without permission. A mother, several houseplants, and one particularly unravelled Tuesday. What started as a way to keep something alive slowly became a record of everything that wasn’t.
The plants kept growing. She kept documenting. Nobody has fully recovered. Every page since has been an attempt to make sense of the wreckage, one root, one relic, one ruined nap schedule at a time.
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Recovered observations from the edge of reason. Case files, field logs and the occasional plant obituary.
Open the File
Writing, stories and reflections from the greenhouse, where the plants are calmer than the people tending them.
Step Inside
Things that escaped the archive and took physical form. Handle with care. Some bite.
See What Got Out
Seven cards. Seven mothers. One descent through depletion, grief, sacrifice, transformation and the slow return to self.
Draw a Card
I’d been looking forward to the trip for months. Not because I wanted to escape my life. I just wanted…

A few days ago I had what we Australians affectionately call a “menty b.” I was overwhelmed, exhausted and running…
A real, overstimulated person is behind the rot. Mother of two, plant collector, writer, and the questionable caretaker of Dahlia, a skeleton woman with a flower crown and a coffee mug who mostly runs things now.
This started as a way to stay sane. It has since become something closer to a filing system for chaos: part houseplant obsession, part parenting field study, part slow-motion unravelling, lovingly documented.
Open the Case