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Tag: California

The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Smile
Edible Plants~Medicine~Shrubs & Bushes~Story Garden

The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Smile

Summers in California are marked by hands with deep purple liquid running along palm lines and in between the fingers, dripping off the sides and trailing down the wrists, tiny brown hairs stuck to fingers and palms. Every time I look at a pair of […]

October 17, 2018
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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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California in my (Western bleeding) Heart
Flowers~Stay-at-Home Stories

California in my (Western bleeding) Heart

To live in Sweden in May is to experience a veritable explosion of blooms: with nearly 20 hours of sunlight, each day something new is blooming while something else fades away. Yesterday this bright pink plant caught my attention because it so resembled the Western […]

May 27, 2018
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Small Story- Big Life: The Giant Sequoia
Stay-at-Home Stories~Trees, Forests, and Woods

Small Story- Big Life: The Giant Sequoia

Sliced lives; inconspicuous and dormant. Human events read out loud from timelines imprinted across dead tissues. As the skin of others gathers in these crevasses of plant history; quiet trees become silent. Until the conservator cleans off the years and awakens the giant within.   […]

May 7, 2018
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What’s in a Name, a Plant Name?
Story Garden

What’s in a Name, a Plant Name?

The cobra lily got its name from the hood-like shape of its specialized leaf: a pitcher filled with a secretion that digests insects lured by the sweet liquid to enter and slip down the pitcher into the fatal brew. This plant isn’t a lily at […]

January 30, 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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