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Kids as better gardeners?
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Posted by Monika6 4ont.can (My Page) on Wed, Jan 29, 03 at 21:24
| My son bought a double impatiens plant that had suffered frost and was reduced to branches without leaves for 50cents at a supermarket. It looked like a losing proposition and I tried to convince him to puchase something else but he insisted this was the plant for him. By the end of the summer it was one of the largest and most floriferous double impatiens I have ever seen. His gardens tend to outshine my carefully planned and thought out flower beds every year. I certainly don't mind but does this happen to other gardening moms? |
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| My 9-year-old son is very attached to succulents. He gets the most unlikely cuttings from my friend's plants, and gets them to really grow. He now has a whole cactus and succulent collection that he may exhibit at the Orange County Fair this year. There have been some little branches that I've wanted to pull out and pitch, but he always convinces me to leave them alone -- and he's right. Pam |
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| I have two other boys, ages 5 and 3, as well. They don't pay much attention to the garden. When I come out of the house to find my eldest passing his hands over an iris' petals or looking for butterflies, I start to wonder if gardening is in a person's genetics like so many other things. |
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| Last spring my daughter (5 year old) and I planted some bare root roses. One in particular did not do so well, shriveled and began to die. I decided that there was nothing left to do but put it out of its misery. My daughter was horrified that I would even fathom such an idea. "You wouldn’t kill me if I were sick!", she proclaimed. Needless to say, we babied the plant, and by fall it took off. There is something to be said for a child’s persistence. |
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