Fran Sorin

People and Plants

Using Native Plants To Save The Ecosystem


In the past couple of years, discussions about the importance of using native plants in our landscape have become more frequent.
 
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A Gardener's Love Affair With Roses


My first face to face meeting with a rose took place more than 30 years ago when I was a young girl and my mother asked me to weed the garden in the back yard.

 
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Perennials and Hopefulness


What is it about perennials, the stalwarts of contemporary American gardens, that causes gardeners to rhapsodize?
 
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Transformations: The Life Changing Power of Plants


Over the course of my career, garden design clients, students in my workshops and callers to my weekly radio show have recounted to me not only how gardening has enriched their lives but also how it gives them access to a piece of themselves that had been buried deep inside.
 
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The Zen of Gardening: Experiencing Creativity Through Your Garden


Gardening can be one of the most profound ways to unearth the creative spirit buried within every one of us. Once you unleash this creative energy, you will be amazed at what happens in all areas of your life. Here are six ways you can use your garden as a tool for your creative awakening.
 
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Gardening And Our Forefathers


WHEN Our FOREFATHERS wrote in the Declaration of Independence that each of us has the right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," for some of them, much of their own happiness came from working the land and being in touch with nature.
 
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