Look, look at the Daffodils!
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We are all excited when Spring returns! 

Look, Look at the Lillies and Daisies
Summer is here!

 My  mother, (also know as G.G. Mandy the great grand ma on the left)  Grandmother and two lovely daughters always told/tell me to look around and notice what is growing. Look at the Maple Trees and the Oaks.  Look in the water, do you see shells, seaweed and crabs?  With so much joy, I am now repeating this with my own children and grandchildren.  We invite you to look at and connect with the richness of nature all around us and wear our clothes too!

Look at the Lupines

LOOK
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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.

REMEMBER
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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 connected to all things.

​I started Botanical-Kids as a way to share what means so much to me.  The Sky, the plants, the continuity we all share.

The air that we breathe depends on plants and trees to remove the Carbon Dioxide.  

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.

Botanical-Kids

Stonington, CT. 06378
erica@lindbergdesigns.com
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