Canary Cristina White’s essay “The Privet Hedge” has been published in the Fall Issue of Canary – A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis. Canary is an independent journal publishing work that records the losses to the natural world we experience in our home environment, and the joys we stand to lose because of those losses. “The Privet Hedge” is about a new practice of using growth retardants on the shrubs along Cristina’s block, and the loss of the sweet-scented privet blossoms that bees have visited over the decades. No longer will there be a flowering welcome for those mighty pollinators
