We are a family of four++ generations that celebrate the outdoors.

See the Daffodils return in the Spring?
Daffodils and Tulips are perennial bulbs and will come back each year.
The purpose of Botanical-Kids is to appreciate the natural world and encourage   
future generations to love nature too

The Shasta Daisies and Stargazer Lilies return to the garden each year as they too, are perennials.

      My  mother learned about plants from her mother, Emily.   When outside they would both point at plants  "Look at the Maple Trees, the Hydrangeas and the Forsythia. See how the daffodils come back each year and the damn bittersweet and trumpet vines, though beautiful, are choking things out!?"

    "Look in the water, do you see shells, seaweed and crabs?" With joy, I am repeating the encouragement to appreciate and get to know the natural world with my children and grandchildren.  Join-us and appreciate the Botanical-Kids in all of us!

Look at the Lupines in June

Grand Ma Mandy, (my mom) planted a few Lupines several years ago -
​and they have spread naturally to cover more than two acres of hilly fields!

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My grandmother and mother  shared an appreciation for all growing things.  I always felt special and relaxed when we walked outside and they told me the names of plants  around us. This is a nasturtium...you can eat the flowers. Marigolds keep the slugs away....
 Aspirin is made from willow roots. See the daffodils return every spring.

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Poetry and flowers.
​As a kid, I was inspired by the Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson from his book "A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES". My mother's grandmother had given her the book in 1941 and it features the illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith.

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The more you experience nature the more you feel part of the universe and connected to all things.

 

 

THE FLOWERS
All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
​Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock.

Fairy places, fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames--
These must all be fairy names!

Tiny woods below whose boughs
Shady fairies weave a house;
Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,
Where the braver fairies climb!

Fair are grown-up people's trees,
But the fairest woods are these;
Where, if I were not so tall,
​I should live for good and all.

Poem THE FLOWERS by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jessie Wilcox Smith artwork shared through The Project Gutenberg free use License.

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We hope you love plants and animals too!