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.

12 Purple Flowers to Plant for Royal Purple Color
12 Purple Flowers to Plant for Royal Purple Color
Asking someone their favorite color seems like a grade-school pursuit, idle and childish. Yet, it’s one of those subtle tells that reveal an individual’s psychology. Those who favor purple are often described as highly creative and intuitive, attuned to the...
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Plants that Attract Dragonflies to the Garden
Plants that Attract Dragonflies to the Garden
Summer is here, and the bloodsuckers are out in full force. If you’re the romantic sort, you might conjure notions of blooming crepe myrtles and cypress trees under the sweltering sun, set against the backdrop of languid, humid parties. But...
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10 Colorful Veggies that Go Well with Flowers
10 Colorful Veggies that Go Well with Flowers
To many gardeners, vegetable patches and flowers are like fire and water, living in strict segregation from each other. Vegetables were the utilitarian workers that lived to serve, ultimately ending up on salad plates, while flowers were the showy aristocrats...
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How Raised Beds and Greenhouses Help with Drought
How Raised Beds and Greenhouses Help with Drought
For the modern gardener, dealing with drought has shifted from an occasional summertime headache to a perpetual state of emergency. As scorching heat waves besiege much of the US and Europe, particularly the drought-stricken Western United States, water becomes a valuable...
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How to Get Rid of Squash Vine Borers
How to Get Rid of Squash Vine Borers
Much like a poison that can topple kingdoms, it is often said that the deadliest operatives infiltrate from within, besieging the targeted organization through underhand, clandestine tactics. Squash borers, the scourge of squash gardeners everywhere, have mastered the art, becoming...
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Silver Plants in the Garden
Silver Plants in the Garden
Silver is not a favored color in the garden, evoking a melancholy tone that brings to mind a doomed starlet in the winter of her reign. But there is also a glamorous beauty in the color silver, alluding to bygone...
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Insects that Mimic Ladybugs
Insects that Mimic Ladybugs
In nature, creatures that mimic other creatures always arouse suspicion, for a brightly colored marking quickly becomes the jaws of the beast. Defensive mimicry, used in defense against predators, is far more innocuous than aggressive mimicry, a tactic intended to...
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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...
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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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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.