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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...
May 19, 20213 min read
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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...
Sep 30, 20205 min read
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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...
Sep 16, 20201 min read
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The Grace of Growing
by Tanisha Williams My earliest memories of plants are the beautiful African violets (Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia) my...
Jul 31, 20202 min read
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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...
Jul 22, 20202 min read
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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...
Sep 25, 201910 min read
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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...
Mar 20, 20194 min read
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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...
Mar 13, 20193 min read
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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...
Jan 9, 20193 min read
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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. ...
Dec 12, 20183 min read
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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...
Aug 29, 20185 min read
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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....
Jul 11, 20184 min read
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Healing Aloe
by Jessya Both of my grandmothers lived with me growing up. My parents were immigrants and soon after they established themselves they...
Feb 17, 20182 min read
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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...
Feb 14, 20182 min read
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