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Garden Awakening

This Is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollan

February 1st, 2022
Galina · Staff Recommendations

It’s the first day of February. Our garden looks completely different, covered in a blanket of snow, peaceful and serene. In just a few months it will be blooming with colors.

I am not a gardener. I just don’t have it in me.

My mom can revive any plant. She talks to her flowers every morning! Me? I admire beautiful flowers and manicured front lawns, but tending to a garden is not in my repertoire.

Marcus Tullius Cicero proclaimed: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”. Well, I think I know a little bit about a library, but I definitely need to educate myself on how to nurture a garden.

Let me share with you a few amazing books that I discovered on my learning journey.

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