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  • Part-shade garden border, Why Do Plants Make Us Happier? Five Fascinating Reasons, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/11/08/plants-make-us-happier/(opens in a new tab), #plants #happiness #plantsmakeushappier #garden #mentalhealth #stress #destressing #stressrelief
    Plants & Happiness

    Why Do Plants Make Us Happier? Five Fascinating Reasons

    When I was a professional gardener, I made a lot of people happy by helping them with their gardens. Usually, I either created and installed a new garden or maintained the one they already had. Regardless, after my work was finished, my clients often told me their garden was their…

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  • J.A. Jance Garden Patio, Author J.A. Jance Imagined a Colorful Epic Garden, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/06/04/j-a-jance-garden/(opens in a new tab) #JAJance #garden #plants #gardening #Ovid #myth #thriller #author #books #poetry
    Plants & Gardening

    Author J.A. Jance Imagined a Colorful Epic Garden

    You know I love visiting gardens so when thriller author J. A. Jance invited me to tour her Seattle-area garden, I jumped at the chance. It’s a wonderfully imagined colorful space inspired by an epic poem by C. Day-Lewis. Jance fell in love with the poem decades ago at a…

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  • Creating Sanctuary Book, A Book on How to Create a Sacred Garden Space, Daily Stress ReLeaf, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/03/03/sacred-garden-space/, #creatingsanctuary #plants #books #destressing #relaxation #gardening #jessibloom #garden #sacred
    Daily Stress ReLeaf,  Plants & Happiness

    #18 A Book on How to Create a Sacred Garden Space

    Jessi Bloom’s Creating Sanctuary is a beautiful guide on how to honor your land while honoring your self. It’s part garden design, part plant-based medicine, part soul-healing. She talks about creating a sacred garden space that aligns with your spiritual self before advising on how best to care for that…

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  • Bleeding Heart Plant, Do Plants Make You Happier? Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/02/12/plants-make-you-happier/ #plants #happiness #plantsandmentalhealth #plantsmakeyouhappier #bleedingheart #gardening #garden #stress #stressrelief
    Daily Stress ReLeaf,  Plants & Happiness

    #1 Do Plants Make You Happier?

    Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about plants and mental health. Does having plants make you happier? They’ve made me happy for over two decades now and in turn, as a professional gardener I made many people happy by helping them with their gardens. Over the years, my clients have…

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  • Plants in a container, How to Make a Plant Combination That Pops, https://karenhugg.com/2020/09/14/plant-combination/(opens in a new tab), #plants #container #combination #pops #howto #gardening
    Plants & Gardening

    How to Make a Plant Combination That Pops

    Creating a plant combination that pops is tricky. You have to use plants that like similar conditions of light, water, and soil. Then you have to create an overall design that incorporates varying shapes and colors that both clash and recall each other’s characteristics. While it takes a bit of…

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  • A Pretty Petunia Blooms Best for Beginner Gardeners, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2020/08/06/petunia/, #petunia #beginnergardener #flowers #gardening #garden #annuals #best #easycare
    Plants & Gardening

    A Pretty Petunia Is Best for Beginner Gardeners

    For beginner gardeners, a simple reliable petunia is the best choice to grow for long summer color. Experienced gardeners might argue these zone 9-11 annuals are trite. They’re available at every nursery and hardware store, bursting in bright colors, begging loudly to be taken home. Still, they cheer up a…

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  • American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, The Best Giant Book Every New Gardener Needs, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2020/02/12/a-z-encyclopedia-of-garden-plants/ #A-Z #encyclopedia #plants #garden #gardening #plantresources #plantidentification #books #booksaboutplants
    Plants & Gardening

    The Best Giant Book Every New Gardener Needs

    Yes, it’s February but it’s never too early to dream about the garden for spring. If you’re new to gardening chances are you don’t have a lot of books on the subject. Well, the truth is you don’t need that many but there’s one book I recommend to everyone when…

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  • Tommy Tonsberg, How to Grow Amazing Houseplants and an Outstanding Garden in Norway, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2020/02/05/how-to-grow-amazing-houseplants-and-an-outstanding-garden-in-norway/ #Norway #gardening #plants #garden #houseplants #Zone7
    Plants & Gardening

    How to Grow Amazing Houseplants and an Outstanding Garden in Norway

    Tommy Tønsberg gardens in chilly Norway. The former editor-in-chief of Norsk Hagetidend, Norway’s largest gardening magazine, now writes about and grows plants. He also photographs and broadcasts about them. He lives on a property about 30 minutes north of Oslo with his partner Kenneth and three cats, Big Cat, Little…

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Here's a pretty container I saw the other day: fuchsia, coleus, impatiens. Happy Monday! We get to enjoy another one.
For Midwest gardeners, I saw this pretty container outside a #Chicago hospital recently. Useful for ideas. Have a good Saturday.
How do you like to #leafyourtroubles? Do you get out for a walk under trees? Keep a houseplant on your desk? Fiddle with seedlings? Let me know in the comments!
New newsletter is out! Coping with grief, slow flowers, and better sleep - http://eepurl.com/dmFSM5
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