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So much more than a walk
Animals and Insects~Cities and Towns~Farms, Gardens, and Yards~Story Garden

So much more than a walk

I don’t need to tell you that we are all living in strange times. We are reminded everywhere we turn. While it is important for us all to be vigilant about our health and figure out our new normal it is also important for us […]

June 17, 2020
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Garden Club Connection
Cities and Towns~Farms, Gardens, and Yards~Flowers~Stay-at-Home Stories~Story Garden

Garden Club Connection

I’m a member of my seaside small town Garden Club. During this stressful time, we have established a cell phone number chain. Each day we post a flower whether its in our own garden or neighbor’s. In the fall we planted hundreds of daffodils throughout […]

April 2, 2020
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Of Healers and Weavers: Bayabas
Cities and Towns~Edible Plants~Medicine~Story Garden

Of Healers and Weavers: Bayabas

I spent my elementary school vacations at my best friend’s home in Los Angeles, California. We grew up in Historic Filipinotown, an enclave home to the city’s first wave of immigrants from the Philippines. Her home had avocado and orange trees, abundant kudzu, and plenty […]

September 3, 2018
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A Tulsi in the Lotus
Cities and Towns~Medicine~Myth~Story Garden

A Tulsi in the Lotus

A TULSI IN THE LOTUS On a visit to Goa, a coastal town in India, I kept seeing tulsi vrindavanas on the streets that I walked. Many of them were lotus-shaped. Tulsi vrindavanas are raised stone, brick or plaster structures, generally placed in the courtyards […]

June 20, 2018
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Future Philadelphia: where “Plants are People, Too!”
Cities and Towns~Story Garden

Future Philadelphia: where “Plants are People, Too!”

On a sunny July morning some time in the future, a group of high-spirited citizens are arguing with city officials in the gardens of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. The subject of the argument is a tree; a chestnut marked with a big red painted circle, occupying […]

May 10, 2018
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  • Juniper herbarium specimen collected 1929 by Susan Delano McKelveyLeah, My Juniper Bonsai Tree
    From the nursery I returned with what one day I would […]
  • Sweet Pea Herbarium Specimen (1917)Sweet Peas
    Sweet Peas by Donna Williams I am struggling to paint […]
  • Musing from Under a Moss Leaf
    Whenever I’m in the forest I like to imagine that I’m […]
  • Colocasia esculenta (L.) herbarium imageMy Ancient Older Brother- Kalo
    “Kalo is our oldest brother. An ancient ancestor.” I […]
  • Me and My Tomato Plant
    I was an avid gardener as a kid. I helped out at the […]
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