Kay L.

About Kay L.

I’m a freelance writer and content creator with a passion for storytelling and gardening. My love of flowers started when I was given a book on floriography and realized that flowers can be used to communicate hidden meaning. Since then, I’ve rediscovered the joy of nature and the far-reaching impacts it can have on the human psyche. In my spare time, I collect crystals, write fantasy fiction stories, and create eclectic art.

Latest from Kay L.

Cemetery Roses – Life After Death
Cemetery Roses – Life After Death
If you’re a fan of SenLinYu's Alchemised, then you’re familiar with the poetic phrase, “You're like a rose in a graveyard.”  Rose enthusiasts will know that real cemetery roses, living on a diet of rainwater and the decomposing nutrients of...
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Tall Flowers That Add Impact to Your Garden
Tall Flowers That Add Impact to Your Garden
Time is money, which means that many gardeners are increasingly seeking solutions that don’t require them to sweat like an exorcist during the Crusades. Those days, if you want something ancient, prestigious, and towering over commoners, tall flowers are the...
4 min read
Bad Fruit: Removing Bradford Pears from the Garden
Bad Fruit: Removing Bradford Pears from the Garden
The Flowers of Evil has been described as beautifully morbid, juxtaposed against the rotting sewage of the masses. The flowers of Callery pears, though not visibly malefic, are an entire heaping of bad news.  The Bradford pear’s growth pattern can...
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Bane or Cure: The World of Poison Gardens
Bane or Cure: The World of Poison Gardens
You’re stumbling through a jungle, dehydrated and bone-weary, when you come across curious white flowers. You wonder whether they might alleviate the slash that you received from a thorny vine or just make it worse. Many poisonous flowers, from black...
3 min read
Easy Fruits to Grow in Raised Beds
Easy Fruits to Grow in Raised Beds
Raised bed gardening has completely transformed the modern backyard. When it comes to creating a fairytale theme, flowers, often falling in a familiar spectrum of frilly or sensational masses, are suggested. Yet, if you consider the historical Grimm fairytales, briar...
4 min read
The Flowers of Evil: Deceptively Beautiful Invasive Plants
The Flowers of Evil: Deceptively Beautiful Invasive Plants
“Folly and error, sin and avariceLabor our minds and bodies in their course.Gaily we nourish our pleasurable remorseAs beggars feed their parasitic lice.” Charles Baudelaire in Les Fleurs du Mal, translated by Jacques LeClercq. The deceptive beauty of nature has been written...
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10 Hydrangea Beautiful Landscaping Ideas for the Garden
10 Hydrangea Beautiful Landscaping Ideas for the Garden
Many gardeners run into the lamentable problem of a scrubby, unseemly yard that doesn’t become beautiful no matter how many flowers are added. To remedy this, hydrangeas are a popular landscaping failsafe that brings a folkloric, cottage garden sort of...
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Unique Petunia Colors and Varieties in Gardening
Unique Petunia Colors and Varieties in Gardening
In the pantheon of summer blooms, petunias are seen as dour blooms, wilting too soon in the summer heat. They are often found crowding supermarket baskets, lacking the poetic soul of a climbing rose or the dramatic height of a...
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The Great Crunch: Should You Eat Cicadas?
The Great Crunch: Should You Eat Cicadas?
To most people, adding cicadas into a pizza seems like the pinnacle of bad decisions, surpassing anchovies and pineapples, the usual suspects. If a coworker offers you a pizza slice topped with cicadas, you might want to question their sanity....
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Best Mid-Century Modern Landscaping Plants
Best Mid-Century Modern Landscaping Plants
Many will attest that the bar for modern dating has been steadily sinking into the ocean floor, such that it’s currently being inspected by bioluminescent fish in the Mariana Trench. In many ways, modernism is a bane to those who...
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Kay L.

About Kay L.

I’m a freelance writer and content creator with a passion for storytelling and gardening. My love of flowers started when I was given a book on floriography and realized that flowers can be used to communicate hidden meaning. Since then, I’ve rediscovered the joy of nature and the far-reaching impacts it can have on the human psyche. In my spare time, I collect crystals, write fantasy fiction stories, and create eclectic art.