Ann Loves Plants

Tag: Anomatheca

  • The Little Foster Boy Who Loved Seeds

    Last weekend I was surprised by a 9-year-old foster respite boy—but it was a pleasant surprise. False Yucca Seeds, Hesperaloe parviflora. Usually on Friday nights kids don’t want to watch me sitting at the table sifting through seeds. Our kids are usually fairly emotional and like to have us right there with them, watching a…

  • It’s the Unplanned, a Thing Called Life, in the Garden

    “One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect  the whole world looks like home for a time.” Hermann Hesse A great deal has recently grown in this garden—both intended and otherwise. Many of my new plants, sown this year from seeds sent to me in the mail only last winter, have borne great and rich…