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    A Tale of Two Ferns
    • May 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    A Tale of Two Ferns

    By Alex Johnson When I was growing up, my grandparents lived in a very 70s-esque house just a few minutes down the road, on the...
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    My Family Trees
    • Sep 30, 2020
    • 5 min

    My Family Trees

    by Jena Copley My grandparents have always been two of my favorite people in this world. My clearest childhood memories are from their...
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    Guava Tree In My Courtyard
    • Sep 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Guava Tree In My Courtyard

    by Ambreen Salah I always knew this elegant, graceful, colossal beauty in my courtyard would be my companion for life. Since the time I...
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    The Grace of Growing
    • Jul 31, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Grace of Growing

    by Tanisha Williams My earliest memories of plants are the beautiful African violets (Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia) my...
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    On Preparation for a Life in Theatre [1]
    • Jul 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    On Preparation for a Life in Theatre [1]

    by Judi Moore Latta On Graduation to Your Future. (To Jaz) 5/22/20. (Three days before the murder of George Floyd) You walked into our...
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    Raising a Village
    • Sep 25, 2019
    • 10 min

    Raising a Village

    by Riley Rackliffe My fingers itched. My index finger was becoming raw from handling strands of lights as I worked them into the dense...
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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...
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    Grandma Knows Best
    • Mar 13, 2019
    • 3 min

    Grandma Knows Best

    by Kayri Havens I’ve heard that a great plant love story is a lot like a country song…it’s good to include a grandma. So how does my...
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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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    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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    玉 (yù)
    • Aug 29, 2018
    • 5 min

    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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    La Brea Plant Love
    • Jul 11, 2018
    • 4 min

    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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    Healing Aloe
    • Feb 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    Healing Aloe

    by Jessya Both of my grandmothers lived with me growing up. My parents were immigrants and soon after they established themselves they...
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    Welcome to Plant Love Stories!! And: How I became a botanist in New Jersey
    • Feb 14, 2018
    • 2 min

    Welcome to Plant Love Stories!! And: How I became a botanist in New Jersey

    by Becky Barak Many of my plant love stories are actually stories about teachers that helped me see the world in a new way. High school...
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