The day my money died, and then came back to life
by Kaushik Venkatesh In the rush to get home from college after our final exams, my roommate and I left our lucky “money plant” alone on...
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May 8, 20193 min
Pass Down Those (Heirloom) Tomatoes!
By Matthew Steplewski Does Beefsteak sound like an appetizing name for a tomato? Are you always looking for a perfectly round, vibrantly...
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Apr 17, 20194 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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Apr 3, 20193 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...
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Mar 20, 20194 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...
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Mar 6, 20191 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...
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Feb 21, 20193 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...
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Feb 14, 20194 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...
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Feb 6, 20192 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...
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Jan 30, 20192 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'...
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Jan 17, 20193 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...
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Jan 9, 20193 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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Jan 3, 20191 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...
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Dec 19, 20184 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...
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