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.

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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Top Destinations for Flower Lovers
Top Destinations for Flower Lovers
You might think that the flora and fauna around the globe does not vary substantially. Once you’ve seen a tulip, you’ve seen them all. But this doesn’t account for the genius loci – the spirit of the place. Many foreign...
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Transform Shady Borders with These Stunning Plants
Transform Shady Borders with These Stunning Plants
It is said that the angels and demons came together and created Paris. Whether you view it as literal fact or a poetic flourish, it is a fact of life that light must coexist with darkness. Shaded borders often carry...
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10 Plants That Will Kill You
10 Plants That Will Kill You
Occasionally, a report will surface of a hiker foolishly ingesting unknown mushrooms they spotted on their hike, leading to severe food poisoning, or in extreme cases, death. Plants may not be able to fight back using tooth or claw, but...
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How to Grow Morning Glories
How to Grow Morning Glories
Flowers often touted as hardy and fast-growing fall short, appearing woefully inadequate, whether due to an unassuming appearance or other faults. Many gardeners are already familiar with the sweeping clumps of coneflowers or leggy petunias wilting on the front porch. ...
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Vegetables You Can Propagate from Scraps
Vegetables You Can Propagate from Scraps
In an era where sensationalizing content is a guaranteed way to boost engagement and monetization, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to distinguish between what’s reality and what’s unrealistic expectation. Those lush trees that sprout from seeds within weeks hardly seem feasible,...
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How to Plan and Maintain a Prairie Style Garden
How to Plan and Maintain a Prairie Style Garden
A prairie brings to mind expanses of rolling grassland dotted with wildflowers, harkening back to a time past when much of America was still rural pastureland. Today, much of that bucolic setting is gone – replaced by modern high-rises and...
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Greenhouse Ideas That Add Charm
Greenhouse Ideas That Add Charm
In the forbidding cold, exotic flowers easily perished. The solution was to keep them in greenhouses and conservatories, where mimosa, bougainvillea, jasmine and tea roses all were grown by the wealthy in the Victorian era.  In the modern era, greenhouses...
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Romantic Plants for a Cottage Garden
Romantic Plants for a Cottage Garden
English manor gardens were very enviable – they lacked the rigid formations of French formal gardens, yet displayed an exuberance like none other. Roses, hydrangeas, and wisteria spilled over terraces in luxuriant splendor. Some cottage gardens trend toward the frillier...
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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.