Blame it all on my roots...
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STORY: I've been gardening a very long time, I guess you could say it runs in my blood. My mother is a gardener as well just like her mother before her. Speaking of her mother, I was extremely close to my grandmother growing up. She lived out in the country and was one of those little old ladies with long gray hair, funky windchimes hanging from her porch along with hummingbird feeders, free range chickens, many beautiful species of flowers and
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Mini-me.
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STORY: When I fractured my ankle she took 9ver.
A Storybook Dream Come True
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STORY: As a young girl I was a voracious reader. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett was one of my very favorite books and I have read it many times through the years. I didn't do much gardening growing up in Florida other than the assigned chore of pulling weeds in the heat in our yard. I fantasized about living in an area with four seasons, enjoying brilliant autumn leaves and crisp snowy landscapes, and especially springs and summers riotous
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A New Beginning
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STORY: Butterflies are so special to me. It’s a representation of a New Life after death. The death of the caterpillar hence a BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY
Growing out of my depression.
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STORY: In 2014 I lost my brother who was just a couple years older than me, shortly after his return from deployment in Afghanistan. From 2014-2018 I was severely depressed. I had lost my best friend and brother. During that time in 2016, my husband and I had another child together, but that pregnancy was really hard on my body and I ended up in the hospital for 3 months straight, at one point having to choose between my life and
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Our Tiny Paradise
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STORY: Back on Jan. 6th 2016 we had a house fire and lost everything. My husband, our son, our two dogs and myself, ended up in an RV, we found a small lot in an RV park and that is where we are. Very tiny lot, not the best of an area and so decided to make it a small paradise for our family. Now we are growing veggies, berries, beans, bok choy, herbs, potatoes, garlic, flowers, trees and more. I
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The Perfect Rose!
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STORY: After retirement, I needed a hobby to fill up the days. I started working on buying various flowers to beautify our yard and found I had a real knack for it! The more I got into it, the happier I was! This perfect rose smells as good as it looks! Many of the new breed roses have no fragrance at all...not so with this beauty!