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Author Sharon Lovejoy tries to keep old-time garden traditions.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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 ...
- Traditional garden ornaments.(Design notes)(Garden Traditions )(Company...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Drayton, Cynthia A. June 1, 2008 700+ words
...result Israel started a new company, Garden Traditions, that produces ornaments modeled...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When selecting one of Garden Traditions' ornaments, Israel offers the following...artichoke finials and a planter to her Garden Traditions line, and her future plans ...
- Exterior decor.(IN THE GARDEN)(Garden Traditions)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Masello, David July 1, 2008 700+ words
...purchased those lions, and they now figure in her ever-expanding line of reproduction statuary and sculptural objects called Garden Traditions. The stone-composite works hark back to original English, French and Asian objects that Israel acquired over the years...
- A yen for Zen; Japan's quiet, understated garden traditions exert a powerful...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Palmer, Kim October 19, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Kim Palmer; Staff Writer The seeds of Larry Cipolla's future garden were first planted in his mind 40 years ago, on the island of Hokkaido. Cipolla, then a young Air Force sergeant, was stationed near a temple with a Zen garden. At first it didn't make much of an impression. "All I saw was
- SUNFLOWER HOUSES.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Child Life Schulz, Nicole October 1, 2001 700+ words
...SUNFLOWER HOUSES A Book for Children and their Grown-ups by Sharon Lovejoy * Workman Publishing All outdoors is warm and bright; Robins...pets? To most of us it's a disgusting thought, but for Sharon Lovejoy, the author of this book it's the key to having a beautiful...
- How your garden could grow: YOU will NEED a GROWN-UP's PERMISSION (AND his or...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor April 30, 2002 700+ words
...cool to 'grow' a house? or harvest giant vegetables? Sharon Lovejoy knows that the way most adults garden isn't much fun for...nectar from the sunflowers. Cool Plants Here are some of Sharon Lovejoy's favorites for kids - cool plants that are easy to care...
- What is the greatest gardening challenge you have faced? (Editor's...
- Magazine article from: Country Living Gardener January 1, 2003 700+ words
...planting her favorite annuals (see page 76). When columnist Sharon Lovejoy lived in a tiny attic apartment, she crammed her windowsill...herbs, and creating backyard bouquets from contributors Sharon Lovejoy and Tom Christopher, and other guest experts. The two...
- Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots.
- Science Activities Spuler, Frances B. January 1, 2000 700+ words
Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots. Sharon Lovejoy. New York: Workman Publishing. 1999. 159 pp. $13...Shoots, Buckets and Boots is every gardener's dream. Sharon Lovejoy, a nationally known garden expert and naturalist, has...
- TROJANS WIN THIRD IHLANFELDT CROWN.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) October 10, 2002 700+ words
...a 7-1 victory over Carroll College in a non-conference women's soccer match Tuesday night at Interbay Stadium. Sharon Lovejoy and Katy Nydam added two goals apiece as the Falcons (5-4-1) set a team record for goals in a game.
