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This is a really interesting guest article explaining the secret meanings behind birthday flowers. In Victorian times all the months of the year had specific flowers… and, it’s still fun today.

Birth Flowers Explained! A Quick Guide to Birth Month Flowers

Birth month flowers are an early tradition.  In the same vein as birthstones, birth month flowers are flowers selected to coincide with a specific month.  Every flower then has its own meaning in the words of flowers, reminiscent of the Victorian days.

Different months comprise different meanings.  As an example, January’s flower is a carnation.  The carnation in general means attraction, merit, and adoration.  What’s more, the particular tint for this flower carries a meaning as well.  To provide an example, if you give a person a crimson carnation, it means “my heart aches for you.”  A pink carnation means “I’ll never forget you.”  A yellow one is given when you are disappointed with someone.  And a banded carnation connotes that you really want to be with them. Read the rest of this entry

Have a “Green” Easter Basket This Year!

This is a great how-to video… kids learn how to create an Easter-basket sized piece of grass sod to use instead of typical artificial, plastic ”grass”.  

Grass seed takes about 1 week to germinate indoors, and about 3 weeks to mature. Since Easter Sunday is April 12th this year, NOW is the time to start this project!

However, if Easter is right around the corner by the time you find this video, just use a bit of sod instead of grass seed… then follow the rest of the video. Happy Easter! 

Happy gardening… Susan Nelson Hopkins
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