Since a child, I have always loved reading historical non-fiction such as stories about the founding of our incredible country or legendary expeditions to far-flung places. Lately Ive been very interested in learning more about indigo and natural dye and pigment. Thats probably why I was outside all day long exploring nature. Ham/lamb? I like to make rhyming games shout-out games. As a child I did not have books. A neighbor had lent me a Nancy Drew Mystery and started me off. Who knew gardening and flowers would become a lifelong passion. My grandmother had these giant old books she would read to us from. This book looks lovely and I would love to own a copy! The black and white illustrations touched me as well. Absolute genius. Thank you Floret for your guidance. Truth be told. I have since found a different copy for the kids to have on their bookshelf. I read anything I could get my hands on as a kid, books were my favorite friends. I didnt have it as a child but I have read them over and over to my children. For reasons unknown, other than wanting to be scared to death, I devoured all of Edgar Allan Poes books. But it sure inspired me to work and have fun with kids as a teenager. I was blessed with a grandmother who always did a garden. I was most interested in books about horses as a child. Maybe it was because father was born in the Netherlands or maybe because when I stared reading her book, we were similar in age. I love the idea of the Lost and Found book and think the photography is just gorgeous. I never realized how The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, read when I was 11 years old has touched me throughout my life (now age 65). I loved the mystery and suspense. For a few years of elementary school we had a book award for the academic achievement and I won! Gardening provides another kind of transformative experience. Now, I cant stand horror, but I love finding thrills in other ways: slowing down to let myself get really excited by a sunset, a flower, skiing fast through the woods on a deep powder day, dancing in the living room with my toddler and letting myself feel his exhilaration and unbridled joy. A friend has decided that the gaudy ones are the most fun. As a child, I was always drawn to three types of books: fiction, scientific discovery, and coffee table books. We lived in the country and I would go out into the fields and pretend I was the characters, perfectly happy amongst the flowers. Growing up in Canada I loved all the Anne of Green Gables books. As an early reader my favorite book was Chip and Dales book of The Mystery of the Missing Peanut. I still love to read and usually finish my day with a good book. Im a scientist now, so I guess you could say they certainly shaped my future, or that I was always interested in science. But because I was the youngest of four, my mother lost interest in reading to me. My favorite book was a color book. I read everything I could get my hands on. My mother loved to garden but was allergic to fresh flowers, so we seldom had fresh flowers in the house. Love conquers all. Thanks for celebrating the beauty we can add to the mix! As a child I adored Come for a Walk With Me, an enchanting book about a little girl who is sent to borrow a cup of sugar from the neighbor next door. I also loved Anne of Green Gables immensely. So thats when I decided Im going to start a garden of flowers for the village that helped me when I needed them the most ! Amazing! hide this ad . When I was little, I was drawn to romantic books like The Secret Garden, Magic for Marigold, and Anne of Green Gables. the men and women have made for our county and to not take living here for granted. An escape. The type of book that shaped who I am today is not a book but a magazine, National Geographic. Secret Garden was one of my all time favorites; it showed empathy and something that I now know for sure: nature does heal. Our neighbor was a childrens librarian and supplied my mom with all the most exceptional picture books in the 1940s. An incredible story of perseverance. Wherever I travel in the world, flowers befriend me. As an adult, I continue to love stories of all kinds, and always take a book with me, wherever I go. There were so many in the series and I loved the adventures and the way she would be so curious to solve a mystery. The images and stories coming out from these places are truly heartbreaking. The only way my parents could get me to put them on at bedtime was to buy me a new Little Golden Book every day, which theyd read to me as they strapped the braces on. And 2 years ago my daughter (who settled down the road with her kids) and me started a flower farm. This could be a choose your own adventure, a mystery or a compelling novel. I think my favorite one was Henry Huggins and the Clubhouse. I also loved fiction stories with strong female leads. My favorites was my dads collection of National Geographic Magazines. It was horse books all the way for me when I was little! It is still a treasure of mine. At first, I was reading lots of WWII fiction based on true stories and real people. 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. I had the world at my fingertips! Now that Ive begun a habit of nature journaling and watercolor I often think back to those formative days of reading those beloved novels. Jessies illustrations were so dreamy. Ham/jeans? My summers were filled with watching Days of Our Lives on a tele with bunny ears, smells of grease and oil, and harlequin novels my auntie thought as age appropriate. A kids book about dogs, cars and a search for the big dog party. Flowers have a magical way of changing our focus to try and see the positive things in life. for a Spring Urn Workshop that looked pretty magical! As an adult I read psychological thrillers so not much has changed! The photography sends me into dreams of creating . My favorite book was Mr. Willoughbys Christmas Tree. thanks always for being such an inspiring generous flower loving soul . Alice in Wonderland I can not remember a time when I was not reading. It is interesting how perspective changes as an adult. It was my way of escaping and adventuring as a child. We (there were 6 of us) also loved The Berenstain Bear books. take the bad with the good. I hope that Zoes flower farm is OK after the storm and the community will recover quickly. But I do hope to visit the small villages and find those little gardens that show the love of their gardener. My fairy tale book is even more special to me because my father who didnt make much money in his work as a young police constable in those days spent most of his paycheque on this book. That story contained lots of emotions. I loved all books that took me to a new world or place. This will require mats, lights, and action! In our bloom time in southern Illinois I make little bouquets, take them to church on Sunday mornings and give them away to brighten the days of others. I would empty one out and flip through the pages mesmerized by the pictures. Im glad that these days the wonder and magic is often (but not often enough) centered around these cultures, so that hopefully todays readers have a better understanding of the true history alongside the wonder. I think they led me to be forever enchanted by the seasons with the rituals of growing and nurturing. These pages are a feast for the eyes, and the soul. I read a lot of poetry as a child and when I saw your question, this poem sprang to mind I memorized many of the poems and loved the beautiful drawings. I would spend hours pouring all my attention into all the minute details and his artistry, allowing my imagination to follow the stories and cast off animal characters. I loved all kinds of books as a child, and I think that broad range of interests has carried over! Now I sometimes have to remember it, because in everyday life with five children it is easy to forget. This mindset definitely helped me raise my kids I kept my eye out for opportunities to teach life and growth lessons in unexpected ways. That is a hard question for me as a lover of books since a very young age. I dreamed to escape and journey on adventures which led me to my love of travel, I guess. As a child, I read a lot of series-little house on the prairie, babysitters club, etc -not sure how those stories shaped who I am however, Ive continued to be a voracious reader -mostly if cookbooks and any gardening book I can get my hands onwhich help me relax, dream, plan and reap heaps of delicious food and flowers! An adult, I think it helped to shape my goals to travel and share travel experiences with my children as often as possible. My mom took us to the library every week during summer break. Its about every day observation and often the simplicity of life. June 10, 2022 by . Before I could read, I would definitely spend hours in the seek and find books. I have always been interested in drawing and painting, so I remember these pictures and their subtlety to this day. But my most favorite of the Dr Seuss boom was the Dictionary in Spanish and English. Bookmark Quiz Bookmark Quiz -/5-RATE QUIZ. Sizzle, sizzle, watch it fry. We would also read magazines passed to us by a neighbor. As a young child I loved anything with colorful illustrations which has now translated into my interest in colorful photography! There were was a story on one side of each page and a picture on the other. Im also a photographer so seeing beauty in others work is always so inspiring! I love my flower garden and invite all the creatures great and small to enjoy it as much as I do.. count me grateful, living in amongst the flowers! and they passed that obsession on to me. Thank you. The stories are full of creatures, nature and good always wins. My love for reading has continued as an adult and has helped me adopt the philosophy in life that our own stories matter. Reading leads to a world of exploration! The peace and beauty. With absolute certainty I can say my favourite book of all time as a child and as an adult is Frances Hodgson Burnetts The Secret Garden. When I was youngest I also love magic tree house, and black stallion. 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. Sometimes the magic is my own appreciation for friends, family, nature, or what we can cultivate ourselves. I loved looking at the I Spy book series as a kid, which are filled with miniatures of all kinds, and I still love miniatures too! Am now living in a semi-rural, temperate zone; Im keeping a cottage garden, enjoy watching the birds at their feeders, and am partial to watercolor illustrations/artworks. Non fiction especially. Beauty, tenderness, strength, mystery, wistfulness, and the idea that things unfold in their own time and are beautiful at every stage. Looking at the whole picture. My brothers had them all so they were available. I really want to have a beautiful collection of New Zealand-bred roses throughout the field, so Im trialing a lot of new varieties from Matthews Roses. Full of history and magic. Im especially interested to hear if there are any new rose varieties you cant live without! I still have them. Thank you for the inspiration and a trip down memory lane! As an adult I still marvel and am filled with wonder at the beauty of creation, and I dont think I could appreciate it quite as much without Anne. 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 I followed the stories and lives of each character as far as I could go. My favorite book as a child was Bambi and I loved Thumper peaking his head out in the field of wild flowers. Im now a florist and always have a variety of hats in my car for when Im setting up onsite. My mother told me to plant a lilac bush outside my kitchen window! From their shiny gold spine to the cute colorful illustrations. That was a lot of books! Wow, quel beau livre! She is 37 years old. Fun reliving this memory! Purity of intention and purity of action, honesty, faithfulness and staying sober are my priorities. One of my favorite books growing up was Dr Seuss ..Are you my mother? My all time favorite book since childhood would be The Robe. clia classifies laboratories based on. assistant, sign up to Chorus today. Count me in. Les dessins sont extraordinaires avec normment de dtails et les histoires nous transportaient dans la nature avec les animaux et les fleurs. Her love of hunting/spying and my love of flowers and nature!! It was so sweet and empowering and made me want to name everything I had after flowers! I was never disappointed when I would pick up a volume , close my eyes and open it up to a page to read. Helen Keller I am 14 and have a dream of growing my own flowers, arranging them and seeling them in gorgeous bouquets. My mom was an art student and had so many art and photography books laying around! But then I love roses too, with my favorite being Chrysler Imperial because of its deep red color, but maybe too, because its fragrance takes me to another place. El libro Platero y yo escrito por Juan Ramn Jimnez. Always attracted to anybody named Zoe. It was about a young woman, who became a teacher in wild northern Alaska. Horse stories and mysteries. What a talented artist. I recently updated this books list with even more books about food! The Cyclo Teacher tool that came with them was such fun. As an adult I have always been interested in the back story, how a company looks from the inner workings. Historical fiction has broadened my perspective of the world and causes me to have an appreciation for how far we have come in matters of social justice and equal rights. Thank you for this interview with all the stunning photography too. 5. The Poppy Seed Cakes by Margery Clark was a favorite as was Ask Mr. Bear by Marjorie Flack. Id like to garden, read and write and drink tea, travel and enjoy the sound of birds flitting around the yard. I loved any book with beautiful imagery, and photos! I loved Shel Silverstein and his illustrations. Also loved Island of the Blue Dolphins and Anne of Green Gables. From apples to zucchini, theres something for everyone. I later became a photographer very much inspired by those books. But then I became older and braver and loved it as is. No other books have made me feel quite that way. As a kid my love for gardening came from my Moms passion for her vegetable garden. Repetitive books were my favorite to read as a kid. Its about a sweet old man who owns a fix it shop and his granddaughter comes in with a broken doll. As a child I LOVED books that were set away from cities. I loved choose your own adventure books! As Anne said: This Island is the bloomiest Place. Definitely going to add to my Amazon wishlist. When my kids were little I instilled my love of this book in them. She sent me a picture of Nancy Drews Case of the Missing Toilet Paper during Nancy was smart, brave and fun and I strived to emulate her. XO) And great interview and story Zoe! Thanks Erin! The mystery behind every novel was just thrilling. However I was always drawn to images or book covers. As you can probably imagine, they had a blast with this; rhyming is always fun. Maybe that is where love for gardening started. Paper dolls book of the Kennedy family were a lot of fun. On the weekends we read chapter books. I loved mysteries as a kid. What wonderful characters to introduce young minds to reading. As a little girl I was never into books, but I was really into nature. These kinds of books have helped shape me by showing me how to be strong and determined despite many other social messages telling me otherwise and also how important it is to me to be connected to the earth in intuitive and creative ways. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. Some of my favorites were my many joke books. This really reminds me of sweet times in my life as a young mom. I love finding the originals ones in thrift stores and even at the book stores still. When I was a kid, I didnt read much and didnt have many books. And Ms. Potters obviously deep knowledge of animal behavior AND gardening, making her able to conjure such believable interactions. What a beautiful book! I was obsessed with The Bunnies Ball as a little kid. I went on to create a large plant nursery on Cape Cod MA after college and then after 23 years, moved to Florida and I am now a Landscape Designer creating with tropical plants. That same emotion in my reading imagination connects with wonder as a bud emerges. Find more rhyming words at wordhippo.com! I would love a copy of this book, it looks like a joy to read again and again. I have always loved and shared with my granddaughter all the books by Jill Barklem, The Brambly Hedge Series. But my favorite that I went back to time and again was a set of encyclopedias we had in our home. I was a flower farmer in Vermont, retired to North Carolina, and miss it terribly! The photos in this book look so incredibly lush and beautiful. I now own a small farm and just getting started growing flowers again.. SZAs SOS becomes her most streamed album on Spotify Since its early December release, SZAs SOS Ice Spice does TikTok video with North West and her friends Ice Spice recently showed a Ja Morant shows off a gun on Instagram Story this morning Ja Morant is the most Pooh Shiesty to pay $156,585 in restitution to shooting victims Pooh Shiesty has been incarcerated since Rolling Loud begins its 2023 California festival On Friday afternoon, Rolling Loud officially kicked off its We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website. I loved the Anne of green gables stories .. such a dreamy story full of love and triumph it made me rethink about having a dream and appreciate the beautiful details of this world. I loved my visit to New Zealand, many years ago, and this brought back some lovely memories. For a chance to win, simply post a comment below telling us what type of book you were most interested in as a child and how its helped shape who you are as an adult. Id flitter off to the kids section while he picked out books or just walk through rows. Anything nature, that gave me a reason to go exploring. I am so excited that copies are finally available for us here in the states. My favorite childrens book is Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey. But my garden is a destination and an adventure. How they have shaped me as an adult is that I continue to pursue to know Him and love Him and follow His ways. And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Animal Stories by Thornton Burgess became one of my all time favorites. She would allow us to put our heads down and listen to her read one chapter before we went to lunch. The beautiful nature images inspired my love of flowers. It has helped me as an adult to be able to look for the good in every situation. Many were inspired by my own life, others by fellow creatives around me, like the The Beekeeper, The Artist, The Potter, and The Musician. I would walk through the field and the flowers would start to reflect their stories. I loved mystery books such as Trixie Belden and adventure/ fantasy books like The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. I loved the search and find books as a child, too! I think the second delight was the best! This is how I am today! I cannot think of a better gift of knowledge and joy to pass down through generations. The love of growing things passed from generation to generation is amazing and beautiful! As a child I would love to be read to. I would bury myself in their adventures and ever since then have been fascinated by Puffin birds. As an adult I love to walk in nature, still hoping to spot a tiny gnome house. The Gem. I cant say today whether this book changed something in me or just confirmed me in my nature. I still love the outdoors and have hobbies like beekeeping and gardening so it must have influenced me that way. If there were a picture book that captured me, Id say anything about Christopher Robin and Pooh. That will keep them looking cute and fit! My favorite books when I was a kid were books that continued on and told a story. Stuart (who was small like me) and Nancy (who shared my name and my gender) were both adventurers who took control of their lives and escapades. It truly fueled my imagination which is still going strong. Canada. Nancy Drew is first thing that popped up as favorite childhood books. Ive read this with my own kids many times! Around 8 or 9, I fell in live with the Boxcar Children series and the story of Heidi. I loved Little House on the Prairie. When I was a little girl I was in love with those bird books from Costco with buttons on the side that would play the song of the bird on the page. She was a nurse and I enjoyed how she cared for patients/ families and the various roles she was involved in. As long as you cherish and celebrate it, it will always be there to bring you joy. Alexis Skyy originally appeared in Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood and is most known for her feud with Masika Kalysha over their shared baby daddy, Fetty Wap. Heidi was drawn to hiking higher and higher in the mountains, a pastime that I now enjoy in Colorado as an adult. I loved books with funny stories and beautiful pictures like Madeline, Winnie the Pooh, and Animals Friends. Plus I loved trying to figure out who done it before the end. Et voil que ce printemps je commencerais mes premires semis de fleurs :) . I love this book so much! As a child, I was fascinated with Anne Frank. I had a wonderful Mother Goose book filled with fantastic drawings accompanying the rhymes always a favorite. What a beautiful book. Ironically, my flower farm in Maine is named Lost & Found Farm. These books inspired me to keep reading. I remember just looking at this same page over and over. As I grew up I developed sewing skills of my own, and these days I make quilts and other useful things out of mostly scrap fabric. My Mother, a nurse, read it to me and she taught me by her own example how to be caring, courageous and passionate about all living beings and appreciate the beauty and good in all! Of course, I loved all kinds of hands on books. The dog and horse books were my dreams of wanting a dogandahorse. My favorite childhood stories always had animals and nature in them. I can still taste the intense sweetness of the wild strawberries growing in our field on the edge of the forest. It spoke to simpler times and a connection to the outdoors as a way of healing. I especially loved the Little House on the Prairie series, The Borrowers, and my favourite, The Secret Garden. Blue Willow by Doris Gates is a lovely tale of a migrant farm workers daughter who has one blue willow plate that she relishes. Somehow, realizing the infinity of space and therefore endless possibilities out there, allows me to appreciate the beauty and intricate details of a petal, a grain of sand, or the bark of a tree. The book I will always remember that helped me to this day is ( Are You There God , Its Me Margaret ) . I began with what was at home my mothers set of Nancy Drews and a few Cherry Ames. It made me curious about where we live and come from . Over the years I have learned how important color and pictures play into my creativity, jumpstart my imagination and affect how I perceive the world. food that rhymes with alexis. I also loved reading my moms cookbooks and gardening books, and absorbing as much information and inspiration as possible, including the Latin names of plants and flowers, and the care and attention required to become a grower of vegetables and flowers, and the techniques of grafting and espalier, etc. I hope the sometimes 100 plus summer degrees here in CA will not negatively affect them too much. Thank you for sharing your interview with Zoe. One of my favorite stories was about the garden fairies. Two of my favorite fiction books were The Secret Garden and Charlottes Web. This helped me to understand how much our world has changed, yet basic human emotions, needs, and wants have not. An interactive delight with a Christmas sequel we enjoy when the holiday trunks come down from the attic. To learn more and connect with Zo, be sure to visit her website and follow her on Instagram and Facebook. Because of Cherry Ames, not likely, because of me. As a child I was always drawn to animal stories full of adventure and heartbreak and discovery and relationships and life. These stories described fairies, brownies, pixies, giants, trolls, talking bears and women who spoke their minds and achieved rank of princess because their values and cleverness outshone and revealed their beauty. I even won an award in middle school for most books read. Or hope to come across a squirrel that could talk. When you want to fill up on nutrients fast, cancer survivor Leslie Needleman Gather your materials. I have yet to read them again as an adult and I imagine they will have very different meaning, but at the time it felt like such a fantastical world or beauty. Dreams do come true! and gardening and flowers are part of that hope. Friendship and love are as important to me as they are in the pages of this book, and regardless of the pain that comes, I dont want to betray those values and I dont want to give up. I have been creating landscape gardening for many years and I can always find an new inspiration to my designs. I loved to read as a child and my Mom would take us to the library each week to pick up another batch of amazing stories. I think I most enjoyed the Choose Your Own Adventure books. I was enchanted by the book The Color Kittens as a child. But if I had to pick two favorite childhood books, theyd be Tom Tit Moves House by Molly Brett and the Tasha Tudor illustrated version of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It had many photographs of insects, mammals and birds that used mimicry as a defense mechanism. I have never forgotten it and all my kids and grandkids have copies! But the best part of all is that my imagination has come alive again with the textures, placement and most importantly color. I treasure the fact I still have this book after 50+ years of loving it. My dad influenced me to be a constant reader, always carrying a book with me for that few minutes of waiting time that I can fill with a good tale. Oddly enough I was never disappointed that the actual flower was never as perfect or dramatic as what I had seen in print, rather I was always so proud that we had grown what was once just a picture. My favorites as an early reader were the Narnia series and Little House on the Prarie. I read the classics, christian fiction (thank you to grandma for her yard sale finds), romance (thank you to grandma for leaving your books laying around your house when we visited), science fiction, regular fiction. Some of my best memories. And the sun shines through the windowpane. Yes, this season we collaborated on some workshops with Rhonda of Flora Forms, who has a farm about 20 minutes from us. Im still enchanted by color every day. I just my daughter seeds from you for her garden! Growing up I was reading all the time. The Fox and the Hound was one of my favorites. At first we concentrated on vegetables, chickens, goats, turkeys and a beef cow or two but as the kids left home we transformed the abundant space into perennial beds, flowering and fruit bearing shrubs and a peony garden of 150 plants. Now in my 60s I finally have my creative life. We fell in love with New Zealand on our trip in 2015. I love the Nancy Drew series. Reminds me of the pages of colorful flowers from your books and Zoes. Little Women I used to close my eyes before I went to sleep at night and wish with all my might that I was magic. Pollyanna (Eleanor Porter) and her glad game, Heidi (Johanna Spyri)and her wildflower covered Alps, and When I Was Young in the Mountains (Cynthia Rylant) with her coal cracker grandpa all bring me back to St. Clair Elementary School , in Miners Mills, Northeastern PA, where bouquets of violas and lily of the valley were plentiful, and my grandma grew the best rosesit drilled in me the importance of nature, hope, and always remaining positive! Instead of going directly, she stops and invites her rabbit friend, and they take the long way, through a meadow, past a pond and into some woods, enjoying the beauty and each other, and picking a bouquet along the way. The book showed me to be gentle, the power of the touch of a hand can be everything to someone. a bright light for a muddy challenge. I loved all sorts of books as a child (and still do!). Mais aujourdhui en tant quadulte jadore lire des livres qui parle de croissance personnelle, ou encore des livres de tricot ( jadore le tricoter) et rcemment jai dcouvert quil y avait des fermes florale , chose que je ne savais pas que cela existait. native plants (awesome in arrangements!) One of those favorites is THE ROSE IN MY GARDEN by A. Lobel, both for the wonderful text and quite lovely flower illustrattions. The other favorite was Donovan Whilloughby, which I loved because it was so creative, I always wished the crayon forest was real. I love getting new books, and flowers are my passion in nature, so would love to get Zoes new book.
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