Category: Resources
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Children’s books about plants and gardening
These children’s books about gardening and plants will teach kids how to plant and care for a garden, insects and bees.
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Link with Purpose: Forest gardens, digital herbariums and an updated tulip garden guide
Link with Purpose: Cacti and Succulents at Trompenburg Garden in Rotterdam (Photo by Mickey Gast)
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Link with Purpose: Urban plants and thinking outside the poinsettia box for your Christmas decor
A short guide to what we’ve been reading about plants this week. To learn. A great explanation of why it’s important that we garden with native plants. “As an example, monarchs can only eat milkweeds because that is the plant lineage they adapted to over the eons. But now monarchs can’t eat anything else. So…
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Link with Purpose: Gifts for plant lovers and how to train your vines
Succulents in Clogs by Mickey Gast for Green with Purpose
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Link with Purpose: Rain gardens in back alleys and bringing your houseplants indoors
A short guide to what we’ve been reading about plants this week. To listen. Branch out: A podcast from the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney >> this way To do. If your tropical houseplants have spent the summer outside in the lavish sun, now may be the time to bring them indoors. Here’s how to ease…
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Link with Purpose: Cold-season gardening and cleaning up the floral industry
Freiburg City Center, Germany – Photo by Mickey Gast
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Link with Purpose: Bringing your garden indoors and plant defense mechanisms
Photo: Fittonia albivenis – Photo by Mickey Gast for Green with Purpose
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Link with Purpose: A Victorian conservatory, sensory houseplants, and flowers in the veggie garden
A short guide to what we’ve been reading about plants this week. To watch. This cute little video-poem by Patch Plants about how houseplants can brighten up our city lives. >> this way To stroll. Through the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden in Pittsburgh, the home of the most sustainable greenhouse in the United States…
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Link with Purpose: Space lettuce, willow sculptures, and living around trees
Illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian (b. 1647). She was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, and one of the first women to have been recognized as a trailblazer in the field of botany. You can read more about her life and work on the Maria Sibylla Amerian Society.
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Link with Purpose: Ancient trees, Brisbane gardens, and dead houseplants in restaurants
A short guide to what we’ve been reading about plants this week. Photo: Missouri Botanical Garden Palm House (Fall 1913) via MBG
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Link with Purpose: The impact of biophilia at work and National Pollinator Week
A short guide to what we’ve been reading about plants this week. To learn. About the impact and benefits of biophilia in the workplace. Being around plants and natural light can reduce stress, enhance your mood, improve your cognitive functions and boost your creativity >> this way To celebrate. National Pollinator Week is a time…
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Link with Purpose: Gold in plants and exploding seeds
A short guide to what we’ve been reading about plants this week. Gold in plants and exploding seeds
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Link with Purpose: Exercising in the garden, the oldest tree in Europe, an avocado love story
A short guide to what we’ve been reading about plants this week. To read. A historian’s take on why we associate female nurturing with gardens. This view goes back to the way ideas about gender and work changed in the mid-nineteenth century with the rise of “parlor gardening” >> this way To learn. How to…
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Link with Purpose: Houseplants make us tidy and the benefits of teaching outdoors
A short guide to what we’ve been reading about plants this week – from how houseplants can make us tidier to the benefits of teaching outdoors..
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Link with Purpose: Repurposed gardens, preloved plants and German breweries
Featured image: Room decorated with plants and flowers (1850-1920) via Boston Public Library PLUS A short guide to what we’ve been reading about plants this week.