Ann Loves Plants

Ann Loves Plants: a life in horticulture

  • Ferns, Wild Ginger, Oxalis and more… This is Work.
    Ferns, Wild Ginger, Oxalis and more… This is Work.

    Ann reflects on her experience working in horticulture while navigating personal health challenges. She shares moments of growth within greenhouses, rekindling friendships, and the impact of past trauma on learning. Despite ongoing cognitive difficulties, she embraces self-compassion and anticipates new beginnings, focusing on gradual improvement in her skills.

  • Wordless Wednesday: Working In and Around the Willow Arbor

    Begonia grandis and Tradescantia pallida ‘Purpurea’.  Neglected Festuca californica with a columnar apple tree and black cat. Tagetes erecta ‘French Vanilla’.  Cyclamen hederifolium. More apples from the tree.

  • Wordless Wednesday: Sunny Times in the Back Garden

    Impatiens tinctoria with Fuchsia ‘Autumnale’. Mona the Cat under her hammock shade canopy. Tradescantia pallida ‘Purpurea’. Yes, we can grow it in the ground. Adiantum peruvianum. Some of my pole apples (Malus). Begonia boliviensis. Clematis heracleifolia.  Acquired as Graptopetalum paraguayense. Coleus and Begonia in planters. I grew the Begonia plants from seed I bought last…

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