At first, he talked about the flowers in the garden behind his country house in Surrey. His voice still had its Midlands accent but was soft now and barely audible. He knew the plants by name and took a few minutes with each of them: ageratum, coreopsis, echinacea, rudbeckia. The yarrow, he said, had rose-red flowers on two-foot stems. Achillea millefolium, the plant Achilles used to heal wounds.
Frederick WeiselTag: flowers plants voice teller weisel frederick-weisel
In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.
Hal BorlandWell," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.
Rachel CaineTag: humor human funny plants zombie shane
She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds.
Darnell Lamont WalkerWatching gardeners label their plants
I vow with all beings
to practice the old horticulture
and let plants identify me.
Tag: spirituality horticulture plants
Every plant is an individual.
Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.
Tag: individuality existential plants botany connectivity
Tag: animals god sun earth metaphysics mountains plants rivers air
A good farmer never plants all his seeds in a single piece of land.
Habeeb AkandeTag: wisdom seeds plants farmer
One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.
Douglas W. TallamyTag: animals nature gardening diversity conservation extinction plants native endangered
I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.
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