Ann Loves Plants: a life in horticulture
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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.
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Wordless Wednesday: Welcome to Spring 2013
Camellia ‘Bob Hope’. Sedum obtusatum boreale. Sedum spathulifolium ‘Cape Blanco’. Sedum cockerelli grown from seed. Helleborus. Stinking Hellebore, Helleborus foetidus. Mukdenia rossii. Camellia ‘Black Magic’. Japanese Spurge, Pachysandra terminalis. Yellow Stream Violet, Viola glabella. Spurge ‘Blackbird’, Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’. Helleborus. Helleborus with Ranunculus ‘Brazen Hussy’. Aquilegia with Clematis heracleifolia. Sulphur Heart Persian Ivy, Hedera colchica ‘Sulpher…
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Terra firma in springtime…
A Phalaenopsis orchid given to me as a gift last Christmas (2011) has finally re-bloomed. Like the above orchid, I’m currently in the process of re-blooming too. It seriously took my being able to accept that I had to simply shut my own eyes, let go (trusting that I would be caught by something), and…
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