gardening
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5 Plants That Repel Pests
Many of my ideas hide out in the garden. I’ve been most inspired to write a poem when watching a butterfly perch on a daisy; the birdsong up in the trees above me rhymes more than anything I’ve been told to study for literature class. For those of you who, like me, are gardeners as…
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5 Things My Garden Taught Me
I have spent the past three years gardening, confiding my secrets to the great outdoors. It taught me about far more than the different kinds of flowers and how to care from them. Through gardening, I realized humans are just complicated plants. I’ve learned so much truth from Mother Nature and her behavior as the…
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Peace in May
It is May, and with May comes hope in new life. I feared that I would not have a flower garden this year. When we finally returned from Peru, it was verging on too late to plant some of the flowers that I had considered my favorites last year. In the end, I had no…
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Mythology of the Butterfly
The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly. —Ecouchard le Brun Every spring we look into the flowerbeds, hoping to see their fluttering wings. They’re the daydream of the child, and the memory of the gardener. They inspire awe and wonder, and we create environments hoping to attract them. Butterflies have enchanted…
Mariella Hunt & the Tearoom 