Ann Loves Plants

Tag: garden

  • A Letter to Mr Palm (My First Gardening Mentor)

    Mr. & Mrs. Palm’s home and garden. Mr. Milton Palm: my childhood horticultural mentor. Dear Mr. Palm, I miss you a lot and it’s good that we can talk again like this even if you’ve been gone for many years. If you don’t know it already, I think about you a lot. The conversations we…

  • Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton

    When I was a young girl I spent Saturday mornings wandering the aisles of Powell’s Books in downtown Portland with my father Frank. Since my parents were very protective of their only daughter—and I was a good Catholic school girl—let’s just say this activity persisted for many years. One Saturday I happened upon a book…