🎭 Culture Jun 3, 2026 · Nicolette Polek

Hildegard, Tarkovsky, Citrus Trees

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Hildegard, Tarkovsky, Citrus Trees
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I began growing kumquat trees after my German hairdresser—who fixes BMWs and fills his salon with large, flapping plants—pulled a pale fruit off one of his containers’ branches and told me to keep it in my pocket for three days to ripen. I wrapped the kumquat, the size of my thumb pad, into a Kleenex to be transported in my winter coat. It was a new year. I drove back to a house built in the 1700s—owned by a

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