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Deep in our memories, or our parents' or grandparents' memories, lie fragments of simpler times, of pleasures with plants.
They seem quaint and faraway now. I remember spending summer afternoons as a 6-year-old making dolls from hollyhock flowers, buds and toothpicks, and orchestrating a floating dance in a wading pool.
For several years in roughly the same era, my mother and I engaged in a May Day tradition that her mother taught her.
We made woven construction paper ``posy baskets'' filled with violets and hung them from friends' front doors early in the morning on May 1. We'd ring the doorbells, scurry behind a tree or bush, then spy with delight as the surprised friends discovered our anonymous gifts and tried to figure out who had left them.
Sharon Lovejoy learned those and other bits of garden traditions and lore as a child from her ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Author Sharon Lovejoy tries to keep old-time garden...