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.

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...
4 min read
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...
4 min read
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...
4 min read
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....
4 min read
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...
4 min read
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...
4 min read
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...
4 min read
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...
4 min read
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.