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: Regrowing Backbone

    Dianthus superbus. Cow Parsnip, Heracleum maximum. Cow Parsnip, Heracleum maximum, as “whisk”. Stylophorum lasiocarpum. Campanula punctata. The willow arbor gets a serious makeover. Where’s the fire? Smoke tree, Cotinus, with Lychnis coronaria. Centaurea montana. Yucca filamentosa. Still working on the backbone of the garden.

  • The Fragile Spine: The Gardener’s Nemesis

    I’m baaaaack and feeling better than the last time I was here. Who knew that what this girl needed was a quick back surgery? I certainly didn’t see that one coming! It all started just after I walked to see my ill friend in my last post. I’d seen my doctor the day before and she’d scheduled…

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