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    Plant Lovers Beget Plant Lovers
    • Apr 17, 2019
    • 4 min

    Plant Lovers Beget Plant Lovers

    by Dave Sollenberger It is difficult for me to pinpoint where my love of plants comes from but if we abide by the often-quoted words of ...
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    The Disappearing Rice Bowl
    • Apr 3, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Disappearing Rice Bowl

    By Kausthubha Yaratha My memories of India are distinctly olfactory. Nothing can quite compare to the musky smell of the earth after a ra...
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    Love is all Around
    • Mar 20, 2019
    • 4 min

    Love is all Around

    by Stephanie Frischie Here we are in February, the month of love being pushed up to front and center. It is as great a month as any to sh...
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    A Child's Fascination with Pink Lady's Slippers
    • Mar 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    A Child's Fascination with Pink Lady's Slippers

    by Mary Johnson As a child, each year in mid-May I would walk to the edge of the woods on our property in New Hampshire to look for the p...
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    The Inhospitable Plant for Skin Care
    • Feb 21, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Inhospitable Plant for Skin Care

    by Faiha Khan Would you rub a prickly plant all over your face? Well, here’s why you should! I still remember the shock of watching my au...
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    A Classic Love Triangle: a Dad, a Dog, and Some Peppers
    • Feb 14, 2019
    • 4 min

    A Classic Love Triangle: a Dad, a Dog, and Some Peppers

    by Brittany This is Leo (middle). He’s a weiner dog that likes to eat my dad’s pepper plants. I wasn’t there when Leo first tried my dad’...
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    Full Circle-- with a Spider Plant
    • Feb 6, 2019
    • 2 min

    Full Circle-- with a Spider Plant

    By Lainey One of my earliest memories was of staring out the window of a daycare provider’s house, wondering how I ended up at this stran...
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    Adventures of a Pre-School Arborist
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    Adventures of a Pre-School Arborist

    by Megan Presland I have only ever loved one tree in my life: the big, beautiful, gnarled apple tree that used to stand in my parents' b...
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    The Scent of Lavender
    • Jan 17, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Scent of Lavender

    by Richelle DeBlasio I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, and I remember becoming restless at the end of each school year. As the d...
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    The Cinderella of Plants
    • Jan 9, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Cinderella of Plants

    by Sally Lin Growing up, I always watched my grandma tending to many different plants in her garden. She had all sorts of plants. Those I...
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    Hydrangea: A Tiny (Plant) Love Story
    • Jan 3, 2019
    • 1 min

    Hydrangea: A Tiny (Plant) Love Story

    by Mark Brunson My stepmother is a painter. Mostly she paints plants, especially hydrangeas. When she and Dad married (he was 87), a larg...
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    A Triad Romance
    • Dec 19, 2018
    • 4 min

    A Triad Romance

    by Charles W. Bier I don’t know when I first began to really know trees. As a youngster, I was literally a snake-in-my-pocket sort of ki...
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    Pokeberry sprouts for dinner
    • Dec 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    Pokeberry sprouts for dinner

    by Cheryl Moorhead Stone My grandmother, Grammy, was a back-to-the-earth hippie decades before the actual movement started in the 1960s. ...
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    Buuck's Bunny Barn and the 20 Acre Wood
    • Nov 14, 2018
    • 2 min

    Buuck's Bunny Barn and the 20 Acre Wood

    by Rachelle the Drunk Phytologist Looking back, my whole childhood was a plant and nature love story, complete with a 20 acre playground....
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