Tag: garden
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When Gardeners Can’t Sleep I Prescribe This Book: Gardens in Art by Lucia Impelluso
Pumpkin, Bartolomeo Bimbi, c. 1711, Florence, Museo Botanico. (The rectangular stone at the bottom reads: Pumpkin grown in Pisa in the garden of His Royal Highness in the year 1711. It weighed 45 kilograms or about 100 pounds.) Last night when I went to bed I wasn’t feeling well. In a hurried rush to get…
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Seeds of Inspiration, Plant Veneration, Pits and Poetry
Some palm-like plants I’ve grown from seed. They are looking kind of sad. While eating a date today for breakfast, out of concern for my teeth, I bit into it carefully. I’d noticed a small chip in my tooth recently, so I sat wondering if it had been a seed pit from my last package…
Ann Loves Plants 