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    A Hero Among Cactus
    • Sep 9, 2020
    • 4 min

    A Hero Among Cactus

    by Julia Ajello My journey into plants and self-care started when I was sixteen. It was getting close to my oh-so-sweet sixteenth birthda...
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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 great-grandmoth...
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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 ho...
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    Green is Here to Stay
    • Oct 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Green is Here to Stay

    by Olivia Clark As the daylight shortens, I say my goodbyes to the color that fills the most joyous and memorable moments in my life - gr...
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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 pl...
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    Latent Cactus Surprise
    • Jul 18, 2019
    • 3 min

    Latent Cactus Surprise

    by Keighley R. I'm a plant person, in as much as anyone on this site is a plant person. For me, plants are the right amount of responsibi...
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    The day my money died, and then came back to life
    • May 16, 2019
    • 3 min

    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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    An Ode to Desert Giants and Their Journey
    • Apr 10, 2019
    • 4 min

    An Ode to Desert Giants and Their Journey

    by Kathleen Carroll I spent the first 17 years of my life exploring the Sonoran Desert, the land of towering saguaro cacti and blisterin...
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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 gran...
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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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    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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    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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    Love at First Sight
    • Nov 21, 2018
    • 4 min

    Love at First Sight

    by Melissa Serenda I met the [botanic] love of my life around fifteen years ago, at the greenhouse of my local garden store. I always lov...
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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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