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  • Debra Prinzing, Why You Need to Buy Slow Flowers this Mother's Day, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2022/05/02/slow-flowers/(opens in a new tab) #slowflowers #flowers #Mother'sDay #gardening #plants #DebraPrinzing #local
    Plants & Gardening

    Why You Need to Buy Slow Flowers this Mother’s Day

    Seattle author and gardener Debra Prinzing knows flowers. In addition to writing books on gardening, Prinzing started the “slow flowers” movement. It encourages people to buy locally grown flowers rather than imported ones from faraway countries. Foreign growers often spray dangerous chemicals on their crops and employ low-wage workers in…

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  • Earth globe, Happy Earth Day! 5 Tips to Help Our Beautiful Planet, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2022/04/22/earth day/(opens in a new tab), #earth #earthday #globe #environment #tips #planet #climatechange #globalwarming
    Plants & Gardening

    Happy Earth Day! 5 Tips to Help Our Beautiful Planet

    Happy Earth Day, everyone! Today is a day when I pause to reflect on how beautiful this planet is and how lucky we are to have another day to live on it. When you think about it, you realize how amazing it is that this rock in space can support…

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  • The 5 Best Gardening Books by English Experts, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2022/04/08/gardening-books/(opens in a new tab), #gardening #books #british #english #gardendesign #inspiration #garden #plants
    Plants & Gardening

    The 5 Best Gardening Books by English Experts

    When I peruse my bookshelf, I often gravitate toward the same old cluster of gardening books. They’re by the most prominent British horticulturalists of the 19th and 20th centuries. The designers who built the most spectacular estates in England. They experimented with the concepts of outdoor rooms, mixed borders, and…

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  • Cozy Mysteries, Reading Cozy Mysteries is My New Strategy of Lowering Stress, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/11/16/cozy-mysteries-lowering-stress/ #cozy #mystery, #mysteries, #happiness, #loweringstress, #plants, #gardening, #happiness, #stressrelief, #books, #writing, #pacificnorthwest
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    Reading Cozy Mysteries is My New Strategy of Lowering Stress

    During the pandemic, reading cozy mysteries was my strategy in lowering stress. Now, I've been inspired to share that feeling and write one.

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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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  • Karen Hugg Leaf Your Troubles Behind Desk, My First Nonfiction Book Explores How to be Happy Through Plants!, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/11/08/happy-through-plants/, #books, #writing, #plants, #leafyourtroublesbehind, #happiness, #greenleisure, #stress, #destressing
    Books

    My First Nonfiction Book Explores How to be Happy Through Plants!

    Hi everyone, You may have noticed that last year I got interested in the mental health benefits of plants. I spent a bunch of time reading up on the latest science to see if a theory I’ve had for a while held any water. Mainly, that plants can help us…

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  • Karen Hugg in garden, Thrilled to Be in The Big Thrill, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/09/01/the-big-thrill/, #books, #mysteries, #thrillers, #gardening, #plants, #novel, #HarvestingtheSky, #KarenHugg
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    Thrilled to Be in The Big Thrill!

    Wow, writing is a long journey but sometimes hard work pays off. I’m excited to let you know I was featured in the The Big Thrill magazine this month. It’s the magazine for the International Thriller Writers Association. Author Jaden Terrell did a terrific job writing the article. We talked…

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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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Here's a lovely, well-chosen border I saw recently in #Bellingham, WA: irises, spiraea, barberry, and kalmia. Have a sunny day, all!
Exercise is always good for you but exercising in nature supercharges your mood and body.
Gratitude is not only the key to happiness, it may be the key to peaceful interaction as well.
I’m sharing my pride and joy (and backbreaker) with the public today. Please send sunshine my way, thank you. #gardening
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