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Creative Mother’s Day Gift
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Tagged artistic, creativity, garden, mother's day, plants, shovel
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Entwined
We have grown together like two different species of plants entwined but not dependent, at least I like to think so. ©Excerpt from “Entwined” Sharron R. McMillan
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Tagged bc, Beauty, entwined, forest, grown, happy place, inspiration, Life, nature, Peace, photograph, plants, poem, seeing, species, thoughts, woods
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Scented Yard 2
Osmanthus Delavayi (Delavay Tea Olive) Flowers are regarded as edible, floated as a fragrant garnish in drinks, or dried & added as a seasoning in fancy tea mixes, or in potpourri. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds Means: fragrant flowers.
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Tagged bc, Beauty, flowers, garden, home, inspiration, nature, Osmanthus Delavayi, photograph, plants, scented, seasoning, seeing, spring
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Plants Add Life Where There Is No Life
Plants offer us connections to life-forms totally different from our own. Like us, plants grow and become. But unlike plants, we stop growing and start behaving, as do other animals. Plants are the source of qualities that we and other … Continue reading
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Tagged bc, Beauty, cemetery, inspiration, Life, nature, pansies, Peace, photograph, plants, Rupert Sheldrake, seeing, thoughts
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Pond
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Tagged bc, Beauty, garden, goldfish, happy place, heron, nature, Peace, photograph, photography, plants, pond, seeing
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Pond Plants 2
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Tagged bc, Beauty, garden, nature, photograph, photography, plants, pond, seeing, water
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Pond Plants
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Tagged bc, Beauty, garden, grass, happy place, inspiration, nature, photograph, photography, plants, pond
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Blooming Cold
Hellebores “Ivory Prince” Walhelivory In the Middle Ages, people strewed the flowers on the floors of their homes to drive out evil influences and they also blessed their animals with it. It actually is one of the few plants that … Continue reading
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Tagged bc, Beauty, blessing, Christmas Rose, deer proof, evil, flowers, garden, hellebore, Hellebores, hope, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, plants, seeing, toxic
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Siberian Miner’s Lettuce
Siberian Miners Lettuce (Candy Flower) Montia sibirica It’s really spring when one can nibble a leaf or flower while walking the trails. Miner’s Lettuce is the best tasting wild salad greens. Stems, leaves, flowers and roots are delicious raw or … Continue reading
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Tagged bc, Beauty, edible weeds, forest, nature, nibble, photograph, photography, plants, Siberian Miner's Lettuce, spring, survival, wild food, woods
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Ivory Prince Hellebore
Ivory flower buds flushed with pink appear mid winter and open to outward facing blooms that last all spring. Petals streaked with green and backed with a warm rosy shade. Blue Green foliage. From my daughters for Mother’s Day eight … Continue reading
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Tagged bc, Beauty, deer proof, garden, Helleborus, inspiration, nature, perennial, photograph, photography, plants, winter rose, wringer washer
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Farmer’s Market
Paradise resurrected, where cars and pollution reign the rest of the week. A group of local growers and gardeners gather every Saturday to make that end of town look more like the paradise it once was. Home grown vegetables, preserves, … Continue reading
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Tagged crafts, farmer's market, flowers, food, green, happy place, honey, inspiration, local, morning, photograph, photography, plants, poem, poetry
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