Ann Loves Plants: a life in horticulture

  • Embracing New Beginnings, People and Plants
    Embracing New Beginnings, People and Plants

    “Thankfully, in addition to work connections, I built friendships at school that mean a lot to me, and I’ve continued to reconnect with old friends and family. I’ve learned that for me transactional connections are not healthy, insincere praise is a deadly poison pill, and that I’m kind but not nice. It’s important to not…

  • Stopping to Smell the Roses

    Sometimes it is difficult to write about gardening when you are chronically unwell or injured. After suffering my third serious fall in four months, I am in this position right now. Two of the falls occurred here at home, in my own garden, and the other happened when I was walking beside a river in…

  • Wordless Wednesday: Summertime Indoor Blooms and Swallowtails of Yesteryear

    Streptocarpus ‘Spin Art’. Echeveria rosea. Saintpaulia ‘Genetic Blush’. Saintpaulia ‘Green Lace’. Saintpaulia ‘Sky Diver”. Saintpaulia. Swallowtails from a recently purchased vintage gardening book.

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