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…was holding a black-eyed Susan, talking about how the seed this flower grew from carried a message from a flower that bloomed a million years ago… -Marilyn Nelson Both Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta and Orange Coneflower, Rudbeckia fulgida are some … Continue reading →

The singular and cheerful life of any flower in anyone’s garden…                 -Mary Oliver If we tasked the populace to compile a list of “cheerful” flowers, one could imagine Purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea surviving the final cut. This tall, perennial, … Continue reading →

…another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun And the lilies again are spread across the water. I know now what they want is to touch each other… -Mary Oliver The fragrant water-lily, Nymphaea odorata belongs to a … Continue reading →

Sweet June. Is she of Summer or of Spring, Of adolescence or of middle-age? A girl first marveling at touch of lovers Or else a woman growing sage? Between the two she delicately hovers, …                 -Vita Sackville-West One small … Continue reading →