I had a strange affinity for Pippi Longstocking. Thank you so much for this gorgeous glimpse into Zos life, her flower farm, and her first book! Sugar, oh sugar, how you melt my heart. I think that shaped me to become the curious person I am today. I went on to study English literature in university and a book I fell in love was The Englishmans Flora by Gregory Grigson all the wonderful references to flowers and their homes in poetry and prose brought together the two worlds I lovewords and images, art and nature. Would delight in having a grown up i spy :). My brother and sister are floral designers, so love of flowers and growing things, kind of runs through the family. I immersed myself into the pages for hours and entered the world I found inside. They all have mysteries which are still my favorite books to read. It gave a sense of wonder and a little bit of that magic. It was so great! I loved books that my imagination placed me within the setting. Another stand out for me was the Secret Garden, the first time flowers and magic reeled me in to a beautiful story. We would escape to imagine something only to find it in our neighborhood and celebrate that find. Moomin a whimsical little character from Finland is my all time favourite kids book. As a child illustrations, artwork & color have such a memorable impact. Growing up, I adored the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. In a way, my love for gardening is the Fairy Tale I am writing for myself these days. I think the second delight was the best! My favorite book as a child was The Giving Tree. From what I recall about this childrens story, pickles is a yellow and black spotted cat who lives and works in a fire station. This is definitely a book that I could only do now after years of collecting plants from various places. I had a nature book that featured mimicry. Needless to say, that would then shape us into children who loved to read. The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators. I would read The Magic School Bus and the Berenstein Bears a lot. speck of soot. You always could find something interesting there or that you were not allowed to read. Also have a beautiful rose given to me by and elderly neighbour that smells so delicious your nose gets lots in it. Octopus, octopus, eight arms to hold you, Ill squeeze you tight until you turn blue. I would pour over the pages and then head outside to try to locate real-life examples. Four little peanuts standing in a row. I have a huge vegetable garden, lovingly companion planted with all kinds of edible pollinators, herbs, annual flowers and perennials. I passed my books along to my nieces years later, and will share them with my granddaughters when theyre just a little older. Narnia has shaped a lot of who I am today. Lost and Found is beyond beautiful!! I have always loved reading. 2023 One-stop shop for all of the best content from food to news and everything in between! Its pretty cool that a book published 66 years ago, that also contains writings from WAY earlier than that, is still pretty relevant today. The interview with Zoe is lovelymakes me wish I lived closer to New Zealand as I would love to attend one of her workshops. This book holds a special place in my heart. My love for bringing flowers together to create beautiful bouquets and delivering kindness and love to my customers has led me to be a florist today. The book is beautiful. The Hardy Boys series by Franklin Dixon Third or Fourth grade teacher read some every day, and thrilled the class ending just before the chapters would complete giving the clues to the mystery..still remember hearing them in class, and then reading at home. I was enchanted by the book The Color Kittens as a child. Zoes farm sounds amazing and so glad everyone is safe. Its amazing how our perceptions change as we grow! I think I can, I think I can, I KNOW I CAN! An incredible story of perseverance. I would pore over every page and every word. You are amazing! Owl at Home, Frog and Toad, and the rest. Now that Ive begun a habit of nature journaling and watercolor I often think back to those formative days of reading those beloved novels. Two of my favorite fiction books were The Secret Garden and Charlottes Web. I saw on Instagram that you teamed up with Flora Forms for a Spring Urn Workshop that looked pretty magical! Ive been an avid flower gardener all my adult life, spending hours pouring over all types of gardening books. It helped fuel my love of investigating and problem solving! I know its a Christmas book, but my grandpa gave it to me when I was eight and told me he still hears the bell every Christmas. I loved the magical world of Narnia and learned the importance of friendship, courage, persistence and following ones dreams. God bless you! Oh, and my book wasnt a book, it was my grandmother who shared her flower passion and wisdom as I helped her clean glad bulbs before winterizing when I was knee high to a grasshopper in rural Quebec, Canada. I googled seek snd find books to know what you were referring to. I love flowers, gardening and the beautiful earth we live on. Congrats! I realized this a big world! I couldnt help but share! Mysteries are my choices as an adult. Basil E. Frankweiler, the thought of running away and spending the night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then solving a puzzle involving art and history was very appealing! I loved all of the Little House on the Prairie books and now I have a little homestead and *trying* to raise and grow all of our food! I also got some of your Dahlia seeds. The world at your feet you view, I think make believe grew me into a curious woman. It holds those stories in my mind. I loved Stephen Biestys Cross Section books and any of the DK Visual Dictionaries. Im still a horse nerd and love to share the books with my kids. Today I still like to press flowers and as of spring 2021 I am now an urban flower farmer. Books were my escape into rich worlds of other experiences as a child and I do not know how I learned to read before I started school. I see life to be lived in the moment with joy, and not to worry so much about the future or things that I cannot change. I love to explore and learn new things. Lost & Found looks gorgeous and it would be a real treat to win and enjoy every page. As a child I was always drawn to animal stories full of adventure and heartbreak and discovery and relationships and life. I may not have acted on all of them, but I still find it fun to dream up a hypothetical future whether it comes to fruition or not. As I was a little girl I found the book named Peter Rabbit I wasnt able to understand the language , because I was too young. Thanks to you and your beautiful book. Will always love a good mystery. Father went to work, and the two children played happily. I think they helped me learn problem solving, to persevere, and a desire for adventure. The photos in this book look so incredibly lush and beautiful. Kind of like Zoes arrangements, I could spend hours searching through the photos for tiny details. This book strikes me as a lovely way to bring more beauty into this world and share it with others. After I read your blog on this wonderful book and you asked the question what was your favorite childhood books. Thats whats awesome about nature. It was like seek and find. Also loved Island of the Blue Dolphins and Anne of Green Gables. Iloved a chapter book whose name i can t rememer. How will I use these flowers? Like a flower I got a youngster , a seedling , put in the work like a flower feed water nutrition and alove affair was born. Oh, I read it many times, seeing myself on the back of I now grow and preserve over 90% of our needed fruit and veg. The Secret Garden is incredible the way she discovers the northern gardens beauty and makes friends with unique people and animals really is inspiring. Early on I remember Ann Loves Red which celebrated the love of a color with such enthusiasm:) I also enjoyed the Katie John books which highlighted the curiosity and fun-loving spirit of a tomboyish girl. I absolutely loved the choose your own adventure books when I was a kid. As a young child, I read every Little Golden Book I could get my hands on! For a few years of elementary school we had a book award for the academic achievement and I won! I feel that honoring others and what they are going through is so important. I just started working with a wedding florist and am in love with flowers growers( not grocery store bouquets) flowers. Maybe thats also why Ive always wanted to grow flowers & create with them.. Get moving and grooving with repetitive rhymes and movement activities that give children ages 0-24 months a head start on early literacy skillsFor more early literacy tips and activities, check out the Plano Library Learns blog: http://www.planolibrarylearns.org/early-learning/ WEBSITE - https://planolibrary.org BLOG - https://planolibrarylearns.org CLASSES - http://bit.ly/ProgramsClassesPPL FACEBOOK - https://facebook.com/planolibrary INSTAGRAM - https://instagram.com/planolibrary EMAIL UPDATES - http://bit.ly/CheckItOutSignUp They had these line drawn pictures with all sorts of crazy stuff hidden. I appreciate making my land beautiful but also using it in a practical way to benefit my family. I loved any story about fairies as a child, and this has continued to influence my creative practice, as I love to add a little whimsy to all my paintings and drawings! Thank you for sharing this interview with us and making us better aware of the damage the storm caused. I related well to her being uprooted and trying hard to blossom in a new place. I do the same, my granddaughters love to pick my flowers and play in the garden. Write more quickly and develop your skills in the process, Unique features that no other songwriting app has, Never be lost for words with suggestions from Genius, Over 500,000 rhymes and triggers, highlighting the best words for your genre, Easily collaborate with other writers in real-time, Essential if English isn't your first language. I dont know if these books shaped who I am or if they were just an indicator of who Id turn out to be a scientist thats always dreaming up big things for her home and garden! That curiosity has stayed with me and is what has driven me to explore and pursue many different things in my adulthood. Growing up I had a tree outside my kitchen window. As a child I loved reading mysteries and still do today. Planting seeds and growing flowers is surely one way to do that! Thank you. My favorite books started out by authors like Madeleine LEngle and C.S. Whether youre a foodie looking for some fun new recipes to try or you just want to teach your kids about healthy eating, these 125 fun rhymes about food will have you singing and cooking in no time. My favorite books seem to have been those with strong female characters doing things outside! The Country Bunny I have always been a gardener since at least age 5 on my grandparents farm where there were beautiful flowers for me to tend. My favorite book as a child was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. It peaked my imagination and I truly believe my unstoppable sense of exploration stems from that book. It was a charming book that has been a metaphor for life that stayed with me forever. Seeing her work would fuel my imagination and bring joy. Gardening didnt happen for me until I bought my first home, Mum and Dad arent gardeners they paid a gardener lol. I suppose its reflected in a curious and analytical outlook as an adult. Growing plants has been my lifes passion. Can you tell us more about that experience and if you have any upcoming workshops people in your area might be able to attend? The scenic narrative always caught my attention and since Im lucky enough to have grown up in the midwest, helped to instill in me a real love of nature, gardening, and wildlife. However I was always drawn to images or book covers. I cant wait to read your new book. Lately Ive been very interested in learning more about indigo and natural dye and pigment. I absolutely loved books as a child and still do as an adult. my youngest is an environmental planner,vermont grown,nz educated, near wairoa-one of hardest hit towns in hawkes bay My daughter loves seek & find books, this would be wonderful to look through together. Once I found an anatomy book at a garage sale, it had a lovely face with hands drawn on the front, but to my moms and my surprise it had more anatomical things than expected! Reminds me of the pages of colorful flowers from your books and Zoes. And glorious farm. Where the sidewalk Ends was a great warning about adulthood- where to draw the line. I loved the Laura Ingalls series and Nancy Drew and couldnt wait to see what would happen next, frequently reading under the covers with a flashlight. I loved the whimsy, playful nature of these books but also the messages of inclusion and kindness that I have been instilled in my life. I have shared this passion with all my grandchildren. Back in the 50s, there used to be a collection of Golden Books, and my favorite was The Happy Family. My love of animals feeds my passion for gardening by growing plants to support pollinators and birds. When I was young I was obsessed with Nancy Drew. It was their relationship with their pony that really made me want a horse (even more than I already did). Hello, what beautiful work! I decided to use this food theme for a quick rhyming game. I cant get enough of that citrusy flavor. I still have my original copies with well-worn creases from childhood. There was a point in my life when I was trying to put together poems about nature, I was so impressed by its beauty! One was a journal , the other a book about a little person (wiplala was its name) that was a friend of the child/main person in book. My childhood fave was the book Gnomes by Wil Huygen. My bookshelf contains treasures about gardening, sourdough and flowers, and I would LOVE to add Lost and Found to my collection! Use it for writing poetry, composing lyrics for your song or coming up with rap verses. While I grew up around the ocean I was a curious child that loved everything about it. I still have the copy my Mother gave me which was printed in 1938. Both my parents were botanists and I grew up growing flowers and veggies . And my mom probably read this book to me thousands of times. Thank you for the opportunity, its a beautiful book! Im still in awe of that experience and have been so fortunate and grateful to have visited such an incredible site. I think they led me to be forever enchanted by the seasons with the rituals of growing and nurturing. , for taking the time to share about what youve been up to and your beautiful new book with Floret readers. Tender books about children living in difficult situations who taught others to love more easily taught me to have more compassionate eyes for others. When I was in middle School it was the Hobbit. My favorite book as a child (and still now in my 88th year) was (and is) The Secret Garden. It combined a bit of mystery with a bit of horticulture which I have always loved. But the Lost and Found books also remind me of Richard Scarys books, where I loved all the little illustrations of everyday things. Love your site! Having to navigate weather, infestation and poor soil you could lose crops & build up healthy gardens. I will be starting seeds for my summer cut flower garden soon. Is great for those who are health-conscious. I had the world at my fingertips! Her description of the outside world was so vivid. My mom and I still talk about flowers almost every daythey have always been apart of our lives. Thank you for this wonderful interview. From the cover to the last page, I was enchanted by the idea that there was a secret garden that had been abandoned and was there to not only tell of the past, but held the opportunity to become a beautiful part of the future. One of my favorite childrens books is The Secret Garden. I remember these blue-covered books all line up together. What a cool idea, and stunning images! When I was 7 or 8, I remember grabbing The Secret Garden off the library shelf. forgetting. They showed me magic in quite literally everything, and gave me the ability to mitigate my circumstances on a whim. Mysteries are some of my favorite genres, as well as pouring over art and gardening how to-s. I pilfered it from my parents bookshelf early on (it resided in my room after the initial finding) and has travelled with me ever since. Piggle Wiggle series because I loved her kindness and the magic! I have a life long love of flowers, photography, creating & teaching the art of drawing & painting them. I read, and re-read, the Boy Scouts Manual (Im female). A kids book about dogs, cars and a search for the big dog party. My favorite books (and movies) were those centered around a house. A dream! When i was young, kids in school were always interested in Captain Underpants books at reading time. It taught me to look past what was the initial function to find additional treasures. Im now a florist and always have a variety of hats in my car for when Im setting up onsite. I still love them. My son has gotten me interested in organic gardening and I am trying to work toward that. An S from a vine. Written byFloret. Thank you for this interview with all the stunning photography too. I dont think there were any books that directly contributed to that, but its more of an evolution of my love of circles and patterns which I do think may have some root in the physical shape of lens on my cameras, so maybe it is all connected. I cannot think of a better gift of knowledge and joy to pass down through generations. I began with what was at home my mothers set of Nancy Drews and a few Cherry Ames. My favorite books were the Nancy Drew mysteries- that inspired a love of figuring out problems, and looking for solutions! I am an adventurer and those books carried me away. Ultimately the tales of a self-sufficient simple life must have grabbed me. As an adult I still love to read, although there doesnt seem to be as much time. I read all the series over and over again. So many beautiful and interesting animals with games mixed in. On February 12, tropical storm Gabrielle hit the North Island of New Zealand, causing gale-force winds, mudslides, and severe flooding which has displaced thousands of people in rural communities. Can you tell us more about that experience and if you have any upcoming workshops people in your area might be able to attend? Perhaps that nurtured my love of flowers from a very young age! I came home with Misty of Chincoteague and was instantly in love. When I was a child my favorite book was Charlottes Web. I had a book called The Secret Garden, that I was obsessed with. Best wishes always. The stories and gorgeous artwork captivated my childhood imagination. That led to planting my first seeds (nasturtiums), progressing to tall garden phlox, coneflowers, lilies and dahlias. Adventure and fantasy stories were my favorite growing up. clia classifies laboratories based on. Recently I was riding with a friend in her car, and she had all sorts of fabric and sewing notions in the back seat. Still love finding new authors to read and puzzles mull over. I live in a small mountain town farming flowers. I cant remember a single book so to say but a lifestyle, a refuge, a runaway . I was obsessed with gardening and animals. There are so many but of course The Secret Garden will stay with me forever . I liked kid detective books like Encyclopedia Brown & Nancy Drew. John Scalzi is one of my current favorites. I love a good variety of things now, and I love chatting with the people who love their hobbies or careers. Flowers and painting are my passions now. Now that I have a daughter, and with my sons Im excited to share these classic imaginative stories with them. I loved picture books as a young child, but didnt fall in love with reading until I read fantasy novels as a teenager. I am a workshop student for 2023 and am overwhelmed by how much I dont know. I did love looking at the garden catalogs. Thanks for sharing about this beautiful farm. And now hes living in a garbage can with fleas. I needed her fresh eyes on it as we made the final adjustments. Eventually I started to read the chapters aloud and finally reading whole books on my own. the seed catalogs lol. I grew up loving Laura Ingalls series and Anne of Green Gables. I loved Nancy Drew. Enjoying the beauty and artistry of it all. By the end of that year we had quite a collection, and Id spend hours lying on the blue carpet in front of the bookcases upstairs in the hall outside my bedroom, immersing myself in their worlds. I also was entranced by the I Spy books and the Sammy books, which were a similar concept, when I was young. It shaped me into liking vintage things and learning about them. We pitch our second-hand Raj tent and fill it with flowers from both of our farms. I have two clear favorites that stick out in my mind from when my mom would read to me when I was young. It has kept me searching for that little special thing everywhere. I especially loved a Picasso book with all of the fun colors and shapes. Show all. I loved (and still do!) The books I was most enthralled with were Winnie-the-Pooh, King Arthur, and the Grimms Fairytales. Yes, as a child I loved seek-and-find books. ), and Mary Higgins Clark. My lilac bush is over 30 years old and goes up to the second story of our home! Cyclone Gabrielle hit our region last week causing devastation to the Hawkes Bay, East Coast, and Northland regions of New Zealand. I enjoyed the Trixie Beldon books and anything off the William Allen White reading list each year. Growing up as an only child, the books that really resonated with me were stories of a young girl making it on her own. I like hearing of creatives collaborating with each other. The find pages look amazing! Growing up, my favorite book was Stuart Little I bet I read it at least ten times. As a youngster any book to do with horses was my jam! If I had to pick just one type it would be romance. My brother wanted me to come play outside with him so he would make a wagon cozy for me with blankets, stuffed animals, and my books so I could be out in the garden with him and keep him company. I love looking at the depth of colors in a single blossom. The clever rhyming cadence combined with the main character being a postman visiting familiar fairytale characters makes for an entertaining read. Little House on the Prairie with Laura Ingalls, All Creatures Great and Small by James Harriot, The Lion, The Witch and The Waredrobe by C.S.Lewis. To have a girl identified protagonist who didnt fit in and learned to both feel entitled to and manage her anger at the wrongs of the world was very impactful. Grilling or stewing, its always nice to eat. I was a Sci-Fi nerd. It inspires me every day as it reminds me of that magic feeling that hand sewing still gives me. Who doesnt like being able to start over when you hit a dead end? I have dreamed for decades of creating my own secret garden and am now finally beginning to bring one to life! Home at last and now it was the time she had been looking forward to all week: fire-escape-sitting time. Also reading all of the Babysitters Club books was a must. When I was about 4 years old my mother gave me a little spot in her large garden for my very own. I remember my children running through our garden choosing sweet scented flowers, soft cabbage roses, spicy with fragrance, sunny daffodils, and the promise of life renewed in a garden. This is a beautiful work of art!! One of my favorite stories was about the garden fairies. These books were often my way of separating from my time as a teen and just being able to set myself as a outsider looking into the story and watching it unfold. Thankyou also Erin for sharing this interview as we see the beauty of gardens from all different places . Favorite childrens books of mine are now in the hands of my young grandson. As a kid I loved reading the Fog and Toad books.
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