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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Happy Blogoversary to Amateur Bot-ann-ist!!!
“So raise a glass to this effort today if you can, think a kind thought, and know that I’m going to keep using this site to write about gardening, plants, and chronic illness.”
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Monthly Top 10 Plants at Campiello Maurizio (November 2022)
This plant is not yet in my garden—but I have quite a few of its seeds. Evan collected them for me for several years, I sold them in my old shop, and I will grow all of the ones that I have left of it. It’s a species from South Africa with incredibly lovely silver…
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