2. It was horse books all the way for me when I was little! I loved books so much as a 5 year old that I would open one up and pretend to read it! In short we all are given the option to choose our path and the direction we take with our lives. Understanding animals and the landscape is the hallmark of my life. lexis . I had many favorites at that time, but I always went back to Adventure stories like Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; I think I read that book each summer for 3 years! I loved anything about nature and animals growing up. But my most favorite of the Dr Seuss boom was the Dictionary in Spanish and English. I loved a good compelling story then, and I still do!! Of course Little Women was a favorite, but I was very immersed in Anne Frank and Number The Stars, letting them open my very sheltered and protected mind to the reality of pain and suffering. The search for a zipperumpazoo which had a lot of fun pictures with lots of things to discover. Of course I wanted to be Jo but my personality was more like Beth. They dont seem to be similar, but I can still feel their emotional pull on me, only child in a family of adults. Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and the like. Not entirely sure how its shaped me. To this day, I find myself noticing colors, patterns, and textures within nature, and amongst animals and people to see hidden, and yet, conspicuous beauty. Mine is only a long, narrow 4 x 20ish rectangle parallel to a pathway on the side of the house. I especially loved the Little House on the Prairie series, The Borrowers, and my favourite, The Secret Garden. Recently, Where The Crawdads Sing , had a great second story of how nature adapts to waterways. What can possibly be better than that?! Its been an opportunity to learn the characteristics of certain flowers, their names and their seasons of growth. Lost & Found incorporates two of your biggest passionsflowers and photographyand is an absolute feast for the eyes! They were adventure mystery books that included mythical characters (i.e., Santa, Leprechaun, etc.). As a child I loved mysteries with a bit of magic especially those by Ruth Chew. My first book that I devoured was The Holsters and from there quickly moved to Nancy Drew books. I hope so. Im now a florist and always have a variety of hats in my car for when Im setting up onsite. This was so special & exciting for me as a child. Loved the inspirational interview with Zoe Fields. Thanks Erin for sharing this! Im sure the books helped inspire the great love I have for all the animals I see around me. She created a refuge for herself and grew and amazing garden. Painting, gardening, beading, crocheting, ceramics, mosaics, the list went on and on! Id get so lost in book series for girls like Sweet Valley High but also enjoyed non-fiction books and learning about things that are real. I think reading in general as a young person really solidified my love of reading today and I try to pass that on to my own children by building a library of different types/genres of books for them and reading aloud to them daily. This has carried on through my adult years and theyre still my favorite books to read. Oh wow! 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. It was always so exciting to see what came up since I tended to pack it full of EVERYTHING! Occasionally a splurge would be on colored pencils or chalk, and a real sketch book with sturdy paper. Now Im a homemaker and stay at home mom that lives in the country where my husband and I are starting our own little farm. As a kid, I loved adventure books, especially ones that took my imagination to far off places. . I guess I probably looked at magazines like Better Homes and Gardens, as thats what my mother had around the house, not so much on books. 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. Thank you so much for being so generous with your knowledge, seeds, resources and beautiful flower world. Here are some common ones that you could use: Click here for other lists of rhyming words. I will give a big shout-out to Sarah Hawkless of Emerden, who I have bought seeds and plants from over the years. I loved Choose Your Own Adventure, Sweet Valley High, and doing I Spy! Any time there was a description of a lovely garden, I was instantly hooked and enamored by the story. We hope you enjoy them! Its about two kids who find a pony from the island of Assateague and raise it. I cant wait to get a copy! Just beautiful. Today I find joy in combining found flowers in my yard w roses and irises and small treasures nestled in a tea cup or jelly jar or bottle. 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. 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. I always loved books about pioneers, whether biographies or fiction. As a little girl I was never into books, but I was really into nature. I do love flowers now as an adult because my mother and grandmothers did. Such a lovely post and what a beautiful interview! June 3, 2022 . But sometimes they need to try new things. I was the youngest of five children and my older sister would often read to me at night. It greatly influenced me to be an active gardener and flower grower. I would say my favorite book when I was about seven was Mr. Bells Fix-it shop. Full of kindness and life lifting lessons. I know those stories shaped me! My favorites were books about far away places, and I loved the details about life in an unfamiliar land. Have you made any discoveries this season that youre excited about? Especially loved anything about how things were in the olden days ! It seems like many of these imagined creative characters and their lovely vignettes are inspired by your own life. xx, I loved my World Book encyclopedias! This book captured the magic of sewing for me. I loved reading as a child and still read a LOT! I enjoyed the Trixie Beldon books and anything off the William Allen White reading list each year. Home at last and now it was the time she had been looking forward to all week: fire-escape-sitting time. I was a bit partial to Tiger as he was carefree, nothing much could get him down. Dad was always working, and/or drinking. I would read anything I could my hands on when I was young. We are surrounded by nature and our neighbors farm animals and even through Im learning country life is not easy (my husband grew up in the country with a farmer father) I love seeing the beauty in the simple world around us, how everything works cohesively to thrive and how hard work provides opportunities for things to grow. Such a joy, these flowers God gave us. It influenced me to learn about and honor other times, other cultures, other stories and the enduring human desire to surround yourself with beauty. Thank you floret for finding me on the internet all those years ago. I was an oversensitive child and I am an oversensitive adult, sometimes this big world doesnt suit us with the same smile we want to give it. I have also loved reading biographies or autobiographies about people I find interesting or inspiring. I had a list of characters, more than I needed. I read The Wind in The Willows, when I was young, and loved imagining floating through the marshes and tall grass. We lost her last August and our lives have not been there same. :). I got so lost in the Thoroughbred book series as a young reader because I had a wild passion for all things horses. 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! There is always a deeper meaning, a chance to find symbolism, and the opportunity to see Gods fingerprints in the mundane as long as you are willing to look. hola ,soy de chile el pais mas austral del planeta y tambien el mas alejado de todo por ende cuando nia no tenia muchas obciones de libros y menos de informacion ya que las bibliotecas eran escasas y casi nulas en las escuelitas de campo y el unico libro que tenia era alicia en el pais de las maravillas y estaba en aleman pues era de mi abuela emigrante que me lo regalo ,entonces yo al ver las ilustraciones cree mi propio cuento y recien cuando grande pude comprar el libro en castellano y leer lo que realmente decia ,bueno mi realidad de vida es de una nia austral al fin del mundo que constaba con una gran imaguinacion para darle vida alo que no entendia ,saludos cordiales desde mi ciudad de naciemiento frutillar region de los lagos chile. I knew it would be our retirement home the minute I saw it. I love anything horse related (The Saddle Club, Thoroughbred, Black Beauty). 5. Barb Hartle March 2 2023 I almost soley borrowed natural history books, the ones where each was full of pictures on different topics like minerals, trees, oceans, from the library. I can imagine leaving this classier version out in my living room for years to come! Some are wild, almost gaudy! I moved on to Little Women and Little Men, while admiring the gorgeous lily of the valley flowers planted by my favorite aunt on one long side of her house. Aside from a few old trees around the house, it was a clean slate. That same emotion in my reading imagination connects with wonder as a bud emerges. I remember sneaking out of bed at night to find my mothers gardening catalogs, flashlight in hand, to find the names of the plants I read about, just so I could see pictures of them and imagine what they would have looked like in the stories. I am always looking for a surprise in my garden and figuring out what is it and how long ago I planted it. After reading all Erins books, I just finished the workshop course and am preparing to extend the farm into cut flowers. Years later, when I became interested in genealogy, it was the pursuit of the mystery that pushed me to research my family history. The photography and lighting is spectacular and the flowers.ahhhhhh. Appreciating the sacrifices Isnt it amazing how we carry those special childhood memories with us for life! I grew up with few resources, our trips to the library were a weekly highlight. When the BFG spends time in dreamland placing them in jars and bestowing them onto children, it feels akin to my experience of bringing a couples vision to life and sharing the joy of what flowers can do to tell a distinctive story. Ham/lamb? I like to make rhyming games shout-out games. Congratulations on the new book! My mother would read them aloud to us on car trips and the story of adventure and redemption will always be one of my favorites. His sign on the door says, I fix everything, except broken hearts. What I realized as I had not been picking books that were interesting to me. The animal stories developed a sympathy in me and a desire to understand life from anothers point of view. As a young child, I read every Little Golden Book I could get my hands on! Before I could read, I would definitely spend hours in the seek and find books. Praying for safety and speedy recovery from the damages of the storm. Where babushka bakes a cake with her granddaughter in the storm. . I loved the BabysitterClub and anything by Judy Blume. My two favorite books of his you could search for Goldbug on every page! As a young child I was into poetry. I loved books that my imagination placed me within the setting. To this day, one of the things I treasure most is sitting beside my loved one while we are both lost in our love of reading! I fell in love with secret spaces and recovering lost beauty, digging in the soil and growing beautiful flowers. The storybook I was most fascinated with as a child was called, A New Coat for Anna. The book belonged to my grandparents, and my grandma must have had it almost memorized, considering how many times I would ask her to read it to me! I would look at the amazing flower gardens and dream of creating my own cottage garden some day. The photography sends me into dreams of creating . My love for nature and all things colorful stems from its ability to transform any and all. I loved so many books, but two of my childhood favorites were Black Beauty and Charlottes Web. They had fun adventures and lessons at the same time. Accurately drawn, portrayal of the engineered inter-workings my love of detail and creative inventions led me to become an architect and a farmer. This book looks absolutely beautiful; thank you for the opportunity to win a copy! The concept of a secret garden always intrigued me. I think he was banned a bit- a shame. I think such detail oriented books helped me to continue noticing the little things as an adult- both academically and whilst gardening. She recently passed, and I am so grateful for all that I learned from her, I too have many many flowers in my gardens today and have passed this on to my children. Yours Looking forward to tea parties with my grandkids! What a great escape! But if you're stuck for ideas when it comes to which book to pick out for your child, don't worry - organisers have put together a huge list of over 100 classics for all ages that are a must-read. I suppose my interest in discovering clues and figuring out who did it carried through to my life as an adult because I eventually became a medical detective, an epidemiologist! Thank you for this interview with all the stunning photography too. Gardening has given me that, not all choices are safe and sure but giving it a try ,definitely satisfying. As an adult I have always been interested in the back story, how a company looks from the inner workings. I loved to pick them, arrange, and give them to elderly people. Show all. I loved every book in the Little House on the Prairie series, Mrs Piggle Wiggle series and Pippi Longtocking and we would pretend to be the characters in those books and bring the magic of those stories into our play. I love your work with flowers and it gives me hope for ways to express wonder using flowers as a medium. It inspired me to appreciate nature as a young child, especially when visiting my grandparents spectacular garden around the corner from our home and helping my mom in our own family flower garden. I love to sit quietly in the center of it all, and commune with nature. I was a big fan of Archie and Veronica comic books, so much so that I wanted to name my daughter Veronica which I still think would have fit her well. Id find myself lost in books especially ones containing nature, animals, flowers, rocks or weeds. I grew up in church in the 1950s being born in 1947. My favourite book was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. It was like seek and find. I even ended up naming one of my children after one of the kids in Boxcar Children not solely for that reason but in hindsight its neat to see how that seed was planted. Thanks Erin! and happy to see organic flower farms. My father gave me a book to help me appreciate nature- John Muir The Yosemite. It really didnt matter what it was, I would read every word of cereal boxes! I know, not a girly book, but it opened my mind to science. One of my favorite books growing up was Dr Seuss ..Are you my mother? It is so filled with grace and creativity and of course, beauty from all those luscious flowers and those tending to their growth. As an adult the Percy Jackson series, Harry Potter just makes all your troubles fade away because Im on an adventure in those books. Escape through reading has been central to my personhood since a very young age. I loved reading Laura Ingalls Wilder books, and Nancy Drew mysteries. This book reminds me of how much I enjoyed the highlights magazine seek and find as a kid though :). I wish I had kept them to read to my children and now grandchildren. Thank you so much, Zo, for taking the time to share about what youve been up to and your beautiful new book with Floret readers. She leaves gifts in exchange for your hair! I love this book so much! James and the Giant Peach was my all time favorite. Les dessins sont extraordinaires avec normment de dtails et les histoires nous transportaient dans la nature avec les animaux et les fleurs. I have learned a lot from observing these examples over the years, both in placement and color combinations. I da a set of Ridge Riders- horse books . Thank you for all the information you put out for us all to learn. I would look for fairies in the woods behind my house. I loved Nancy Drew books most when I was little. I loved yet feared Maurice Sendaks Where the Wild Things Are. Now as a senior adult volunteering in a special garden in our city I am always learning & transfixed by the other volunteers flower arrangements, sold to supplement our gardens desire for the next must have for an arrangement ! As far as the book that I was most interested in as a child . When my children were young, I loved to buy my daughter the I Spy books, we had some much fun looking at those photos I of course love that the main character is a whimsical little mouse named after a beautiful flower. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. As they continue to join each other the mitten stretches and stretches until all the creatures go flying. He thinks he cant fix the doll, but in the end he ends up repairing it and the little sign on his shop now says, I fix everything, even broken hearts. 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. I loved the mystery and suspense. forgetting. Im a visual artist, a painter. Put it in a frying pan. Marys reviving of the secret garden intrigued me and inspired me to love gardens! I am so excited that copies are finally available for us here in the states. As a child, I loved reading Wayside School books. I loved books and read voraciously as a child. I am a identical twin and there was a set of twin bears in the book (Flora and Dora) and I remember loving to see how each bear had their own interests and styles but in the end all loved eachothers company. Blossoming trees! The illustration brought me to a world where animals wore smocks & tailcoats & spoke & I loved every bit of them. Owning my own horse was a dream. There are so many but of course The Secret Garden will stay with me forever . I read so many to my children as they grew. Pells New Suit, with its gentle pictures of all the tasks a boy did to earn wool, have it spun and dyed, woven and made into a new outfit was wonderful. When I think about my journey to entrepreneurship, I always felt different. When I bought my old house, I loved living through the seasons to discover my own lost gardens and am delighted by ancient lilacs, lilies and flowering vines. I loved the Bed Book, an imaginative book of different kinds of kids bed ranging from an ice cream shop bed to a plane bed. And give me a good princess story anytime. It was a way to escape and really ignite my imagination. I loved having one story read a night to me from the giant fairy tale book. In third or fourth grade we were allowed to go to the bookshelves after wed completed our assignment. What a stunning book. I imagined people revisiting the pages and each time finding something they may have overlooked, the page revealing itself more with each viewing. I fell in love with science fiction, horror and the melding of the two. Much like the giant, I didnt possess the same characteristics as my peers in an office setting. My favorite Type book is anything that will pull you into its whimsical and playful world. I loved the whimsy, playful nature of these books but also the messages of inclusion and kindness that I have been instilled in my life. In third grade a teachers aid read us THE SECRET GARDEN after recess while we rested our heads on the desk. Also, Burgess Bedtime Stories, Adventures of Jimmy Skunk, Unc. We had tons of series at home Happy Hollisters, Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew and many more. Is be delighted to own a copy as I spent hours on end in my Wheres Waldo books. But I loved and still love Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia (currently reading to my kids), and the Melendys. I became an exchange student to Japan at 16, and I went on to get a degree in International Studies. My favorite book as a child was The secret Garden. I was truly touched by this article as I feel in love with the Ziggy bloom. Well of course we all were excited for a new home but how are we going to keep this yard up ? I was 6 at the time. 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. Thanks for sharing this but of it with us. I still love books that contain beautiful photos or illustrations of things found in nature! I know that was quite the feat for you and your publisher and so many gardeners here will be grateful for your efforts. I spent a lot of time with my horse at the barn and these books reflected my rough and tumble life. I would pour over the pages and then head outside to try to locate real-life examples. The scenic narrative always caught my attention and since Im lucky enough to have grown up in the midwest, helped to instill in me a real love of nature, gardening, and wildlife. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Still love finding new authors to read and puzzles mull over. THEN one summer day, skinny and bored teenaged me found a little book with an interesting cover at the library up the street. It was a charming book that has been a metaphor for life that stayed with me forever. . Ive read this with my own kids many times! My mother had this fabulous early 1900s set of leather-books that she read so many great stories and poetry from and I still have them in my collection today, the artwork is stunning. The interview with Zoe enlightens me with the magic of flowers and the beauty of experiential storytelling. Growing up I enjoyed adventure/mystery books with a little sprinkle of romance. Now I can get lost for hours in my garden, dreaming and discovering something amazing every day. As a little girl my mom would always read us some beautiful stories to my sister and I before heading off to bed. These books inspired my dream to live a simple life, caring for a piece of land, growing flowers and food, communing with nature; which has now become a reality for me. As a child I loved any book I could play school with all my Dollies acting as students, the more colorful the better. A couple years ago I dipped my toe into the world of flowers, and now they have cast their spell on me, and my life will never be quite the same again. Plus I loved trying to figure out who done it before the end. The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators. He loved pigs and so do I! Will always love a good laugh over reading Calvin and Hobbs. Sometimes I feel like Im from another planet. Poodles/noodles? I was especially fascinated by the way Violet could tackle any problem by building something out of the materials she had, which were seemingly worthless items such as scrap metal and hair ribbons. The Secret Garden is incredible the way she discovers the northern gardens beauty and makes friends with unique people and animals really is inspiring. The kitten was abandoned by its mother and was raised amongst a litter of piglets! I can not remember a time when I was not reading. They inspired me to become a farmer and want to live off the land. And also realize I am never too old to try something new!! Thank you. And dont dreamers grow the impossible, probably? I still love mysteries, both books and TV series (but also a multitude of other genres). I now carve out a bit of time for creating in my garden and reading books about plants. All those books are likely what has fuelled my interest in history, especially in learning about every day lives of people from the past. They were so well written and made you think. In watercolour, lost and found edges, edges that are defined and other edges that are soft and diffused and part of their surroundings, petals lost (and found) in woodland greens. Ive tried to replicate their bravery when Ive had to make difficult decisions; I hope I can say I have been a credit to their examples. Im still so fond of all of these stories and my love for the natural world certainly stems from my imaginations of the secret worlds and lives of animals and gardens and forests. My kids adored the I Spy books. Ive always been a fan of the incredible variety of N.Z. (Frog and Toad books and Beatrix Potter books.) She was strong and courageous and had many adventures. Cu alii malis albucius duo, in eam ferri dolores periculis. Thank you for the chance to share this book and this memory! As a child I really enjoyed the collections of choose your own stories. I ended up getting a bachelor degree in biology and plant pathology and love studying anything related to earth science. Years later I became an artist, a marketer, and finally a garden designer. I loved Charlottes Web, finding true friendship and acceptance with beings who are very different from you. There is still a lot of work ahead but compared to others we are incredibly lucky and count our blessings. I can still smell the books. As I sit here in my warm, cozy home with 5 feet of snow outside and watching it continue to snow Ive been pulling out my gardening books and coffee table books seeking some inspiration and hope that Spring will arrive before I know it. Thanks for celebrating the beauty we can add to the mix! I think all things are so much more fun when you collaborate, its the perfect recipe for ideas to flow. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. Than Alice in Wonderland and onward. Some of my favorites were my many joke books. Magical. [Rhymes] Lyrics and poems Near rhymes Thesaurus Phrases Mentions Descriptive words Definitions Homophones Similar sound Same consonants Advanced >> Words and phrases that rhyme with Alex: (22 results) 2 syllables: aleks, alexs, alix . Wild flowers were everywhere in all colors, shapes, and sizes. It was thrilling to me to read about each precious girls adventures in their gardens and it filled me with such joy. When I was youngest I also love magic tree house, and black stallion. Plus. Thanks to you both, Zo and Erin, its delightful when your imaginations come true, isnt it? I feel like her journey parallels my own in so many ways; motherhood, farming, homeschooling, growing as a violinist.
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