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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Nov 14, 20182 min read
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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Nov 7, 20181 min read
A Rose by Any Name
by Erin Rose The first time I remember receiving roses it was in the traditional dozen red bouquet. At the time I was touched, I loved...
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Oct 17, 20182 min read
My Family and Fibonacci
by Josée Methot “Can you remember a time when you experienced awe?”, asked my friend. My heart jumped: “yes, of course.” The sunflowers....
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Aug 29, 20185 min read
玉 (yù)
by Isabel Acevedo One of my earliest memories of my Ama, my mother’s mother, is of her wrist: impossibly smooth skin always enclosed by a...
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Aug 22, 20184 min read
My Childhood up a Tree
by Lesley Evans Ogden This week we bring you another story from our Plant Love Stories Live event held recently at North American...
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Jul 17, 20182 min read
The Dandelion Sisters
by Megan Cate Dandelions are technically an invasive weed. Many think they are lawn nuisances and dedicate the spring and summer to...
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Jul 11, 20184 min read
La Brea Plant Love
by Mikayla Mason My name is Mikayla Mason and I have absolutely no memory of a time in my life when I did not love working with plants....
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Jul 4, 20181 min read
When life gives you a lemon tree
by Morgan Tingley Morgan Tingley is an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. He...
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Jun 27, 20183 min read
Oh Where, Oh Where, has my monkey flower gone?
by Kathy Kuebbing My plant love story starts in 2010. At the young age of 60 years old, I decided to take on a monster gardening project....
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May 30, 20184 min read
Why I Don't Hate Plants
by Josh Galperin I don’t hate plants, though I do sometimes hate looking at them for too long. For that reason trees are among my...
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May 23, 20182 min read
Monkeys, Mangoes and Climate Change
by David Gill Growing up in Barbados, "summer" was my favourite time of year. Mostly because school was out (I hated school!) but also...
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Apr 18, 20183 min read
Venus Fly Teacher
by Tony Chang My mom is an incredible plant caretaker—she just knows how to make things grow. She has the ability to pick plants from the...
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Apr 11, 20184 min read
Plants and Places
by Andrew Hipp "And so, when his prescribed devotion to boyish beauties has carried our candidate so far that the universal beauty dawns...
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