In the interview I discovered that in St.Petersburg the vegetation also includes bushes with this name. It would alter the uniform readings of swamps in ADA should there be a green lushious vegetable in St.Petersburg that was important enough for VN to refer to it when “chatting” with Pivot… More news about that…later!”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVrN_-tsiQ0

Jansy Mello: No escape from marshes, swamps, peat bogs… What struck me was V.Nabokov’s description of “splendid tourbières” after naming three kinds of trees (aspen, fir, birch) and then passing on to flowers and more or less arctic butterflies in a landscape he compares to the one he found in the American northwest. However, for the first time, while searching for peat bogs in the internet, I found images that showed that they could actually be really beautiful, with dense surrounding vegetation and as “splendid” as he suggested were those in St. Petersburg. Peat bogs can be magic with loads of sphagnum moss, evergreen shrubs, spruces…Mer Bleue Bog, a typical peat bog, in Ontario (wikipedia)