I just started working with a wedding florist and am in love with flowers growers( not grocery store bouquets) flowers. I grew up reading The Girl of the Limberlost, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Little Princess, Little House on the Prairie and The Chronicles of Narnia, among many others. Thanks so much for a glimpse into your secret gardens and life in New Zeland.Kare. Today, I still love surprises and this is the main reason I get so much joy from my garden. When I had children it was fun to read them again and see them smile. It planted in me an appreciation for the sacrifices that parents make to provide for and bring their children joy. There were a couple of them. As I got older I found the same joy in Agatha Christie novels as well as MANY other authors and genres. My parents imported a hard cover, glossy page poetry book for me from America big deal back then and super expensive too. When I was little, I loved fairy tales. I rarely go anywhere without a book in hand. 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It has a softly rendered moral about selfishness and lovely illustrations in ochre, pinks & browns. What made them special was the names/ references in the stories were mine, our home address, city etc. I never thought I could do it but each night I thanked God for the blessing of my new home and my son and husband because they have helped me figure things out! The small books of Beatrix Potter were my books as a child and also all funny cartoon ,magical and fantastic!As of today these continue to live through me through making puppets comme to life with felt am working on a flower one, because flowers inspire me in so many ways from colors to textures to scents and multiple varieties hoping to inspire young people with this project !Inspiration from the fields , will surely help the inner artist in me TY. To this day I am sure this is where my love for gardening and flowers where born. As a child, I remember being engulfed in the Laura Ingalls Wilder books imagining the woods and prairie settings along with the cabin interiors. I also loved horses and got into the Phantom Stallion series. The stories of finding a wounded bird and helping it recover, or a child working with a dog who was scared and bringing him around to a friendly, outgoing pup, spoke to me. As an adult I read Christian inspirational when all the challenges of living in this world are overwhelming! Books filled my days with the anticipation of adventure and fun. Set in a land so far away the only way to access it was through your imagination. The Hobbit and the Narnia series were absolute favorites because of the magical worlds, fighting for good and the bravery and kindness of the characters. Imagination. It made me want to visit the islands, which still to this day hold their annul Pony Penning Week where they round up wild ponies and swim them across the channel between the islands to be auctioned off (only some; for population control). It reminds me that nature is home to many creatures. I loved reading the Babysitters Club and Choose Your Own Adventure series books. My favorite childhood books always had gentle fat ponies or horses, fields and small farms and children (like me) with pails filled with something theyd picked or grown or collected.. Charlotte was a creative inspirer! As I garden, I still imagine that magic and fairies and gnombes hiding everywhere. I now have a small garden business of my own that my little boys help with. Then I read to my children!! You might be surprised at how good it can be. My favorite books were about animals, farming and gracious living. I encourage others in include a cutting garden in their garden plan. I still love learning! Barb Hartle March 2 2023 If there were a picture book that captured me, Id say anything about Christopher Robin and Pooh. I loved any and all books as a child. Before I could read, I would definitely spend hours in the seek and find books. Its been an opportunity to learn the characteristics of certain flowers, their names and their seasons of growth. As a young child I was enamored by books portraying animals wearing clothing living in furnished homes underground, in trees, miniature houses tucked away in the middle of forests or beautiful gardens. As a child I loved mysteries with a bit of magic especially those by Ruth Chew. I adore that it is a find and seek book. She took me with her to our tiny little public library week after week hoping I would be interested in checking out a book. I love seek and find books and always brought them for my 3 kids, we equally enjoyed the search over and over. As a child I loved to read and collect books. One of my favourite books when I was little was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I would read anything. Kids and adults love to be invited into the written word and you are fostering the beginning of a long relationship with books! I have always felt like I was born in the wrong century.Was it because of those books or did the books just feel like home? I get to review and purchase mysteries to put into the hands of new readers. Here are some common ones that you could use: Alfredo / potato / tomato Almond roca / mocha Apple / scrapple / Snapple Artichoke / Coke / egg yolk Avocado / adobado / amontillado / dorado / muscovado Baloney / cannelloni / macaroni / minestrone / pepperoni / rigatoni / spumoni Beans / greens / nectarines / sardines / tangerines Its from cutting she got from Government house in Russell, its supper hardy so if you ever want a cutting just say. I was a big fan of Archie and Veronica comic books, so much so that I wanted to name my daughter Veronica which I still think would have fit her well. The Boxcar children were another favorite. You have inspired me to work toward creating a garden that would captivate my child self. the farm was sadly taken out by a 4 lane highway and my grandma was not able to rebuild it due to her age. A book that stands out to me from my childhood was Misty of Chincoteague. what rhymes with kara? It was thrilling to me to read about each precious girls adventures in their gardens and it filled me with such joy.