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Category: Houseplants

“Stay-at-Home” Plant Stories
Animals and Insects~Farms, Gardens, and Yards~Flowers~Houseplants~Story Garden~Uncategorized

“Stay-at-Home” Plant Stories

Most of us are living strange, upended lives these days–isolated and indoors, struggling to maintain precious connections to family and friends. In many cases, our access to the out-of-doors and to the soothing power of the natural world is severely limited. Writing a “stay-at-home” story […]

April 2, 2020
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My Apartment’s First Guest
Houseplants~Story Garden

My Apartment’s First Guest

In the corner of my apartment bedroom sits a guest that rises 5 feet from the ground, with strong, dark brown arms. He maintains a well-kept look with his forest green leaves that run all the way down to the white, blocky pot keeping him […]

March 3, 2020
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Message sent in a scent envelope
Flowers~Houseplants~Story Garden

Message sent in a scent envelope

I have been a gardener all of my adult life, so I am no stranger to the messages plants send. However, this message was hard to miss as I am now far removed from my gardens, living in an apartment in Colorado. Feeling terribly lonely […]

June 11, 2019
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From Where I Sit
Houseplants~Story Garden

From Where I Sit

  From where I sit, wedged into a corner of the sectional, I notice the plant on the end table, somehow still flowering in the ceramic pot painted by my youngest for Mother’s Day, last month. It’s a plant I can’t identify, nor can I, […]

August 20, 2018
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Where can a plant take you?

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