Samantha got this book for her birthday several years ago and it is still one of our favorites. The pictures are all of hollyhock dolls. The story was wonderful. It was about a hollyhock doll that was blown away out of her garden and had the help of many friends to get back. At the […]
So I’m going to let you do the thinking. Here is a fun garden riddle for you. Some fill me, Some beat me, Some kill me, Some eat me; I creep and I fly, And my color is green; And though I’m a season There’s quite a good reason Why my end or beginning There’s […]
Title: Morningside Elementary’s Plant Sale Location: 2601 Evans Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76104 Description: The plant sale will be held in the school’s garden. This sale benefits the school and the prices are very reasonable (most plants are 25¢-$5.00). Also the students helped get these plants ready for sale, so they were learning along the […]
We came up with a scathingly brilliant idea! We made a bird feeding station! Our bird feeding station has three sections on top. One section has jar lids screwed down on it to hold jelly for birds like orioles, mockingbirds and others with a sweet tooth. The second section is just an open space that […]
Now is a great time to get started on this project! We had so much fun planting ours. This is one of the sunflowers that grew up around the sunflower house. It was a Russian Mammoth that was on top of a stalk about 10 ft tall and the seed head (minus petals) was the […]
Rose Geranium Italian Cream Cake From Along the Garden Path by Bill and Sylvia Varney This was the most wonderful birthday cake! We made it with rose geranium and decorated it with rose petals from our garden. Unfortunately, we will now have to learn how to make a gluten-free version. 4 large rose geranium leaves […]
There’s a lot of rhyming words in this book. For example: “Calling all oddhoppers! Aphids and bees. Crickets and dung beetles, earwigs and fleas!” I like the ants because of their funny little sayings. I love the snail race. (Thank you Samantha! And thank you Suzie and Elliot for introducing us to this book!)
“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter,the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” – Elizabeth Lawrence
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots. The other is wings. – Hodding Carter, Jr.
“Sunflower House” by Eve Bunting is such a wonderful book! It inspired us to build our own sunflower house. Unfortunately, I can’t find a picture of our sunflower house right now, but it was wonderful. During my daughter’s birthday, we sat inside our sunflower house and read the story. “Miss Lilly and the Hollyhock Garden” […]
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