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    Memory Gardens: Botanical Tributes to Celebrate our Loved Ones
    Memory Gardens: Botanical Tributes to Celebrate our Loved Ones
    Memory Gardens: Botanical Tributes to Celebrate our Loved Ones
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    Memory Gardens: Botanical Tributes to Celebrate our Loved Ones

    By Trisha Faye

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    Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With carnations for Grandpa Jones ... red flowers for Grandma Jones; they must be red ... violets for Grandma Cline ... And zinnias, definitely zinnias for my brother.

    Traces of loved ones that have touched our souls usually fill our homes and our hearts. Physical items are more than just a book, a clock, a dish or a quilt. They are keys that open the floodgates of memories, keeping the spirits of loved ones close to us and alive in our hearts.

    What can be nicer than expanding this sphere of memories outside the house and into the garden?

    Do you want to know how to plan a memory garden? I’ll walk you through what you need to know to create your own memory garden memorial. Included is a list of plants for your garden and their symbolic meanings. A list of various memorial symbols gives different ways to add tributes. Basic plant information for all of the memory garden plants follows, including the common name, botanical name, average height, USDA Hardiness Zone, and sun and water requirements.

    Happy Remembering!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrisha Faye
    Release dateMar 1, 2015
    ISBN9781310016165
    Memory Gardens: Botanical Tributes to Celebrate our Loved Ones
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    Trisha Faye

    Trisha writes from north Texas where she spends her spare time gardening and rescuing abandoned kittens.

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      Memory Gardens - Trisha Faye

      Memory Gardens

      Botanical Tributes to Celebrate our Loved Ones

      by Trisha Faye

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 Trisha Faye

      Cover design by Lisa Olive

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of authors everywhere!

      Table of Contents

      Dedication Page

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Why Plant a Memory Garden?

      Choosing Plants for Your Memory Garden

      Namesake Plants

      Flower of the Month

      Memorial Symbols for the Garden

      Garden Planning

      Garden Size

      Sun or Shade?

      Planting Zone

      A Garden with No Plants

      Remembering Pets

      Statuary and Miscellaneous

      It’s not Black or White

      Plant Size

      Water

      Species Names

      Poisonous

      Difficult Plants

      Planting Zones –Species Variations

      Planting Zones - Microsystems

      Symbolic Meaning of Plants

      Botanical Information

      Dedication Page:

      My siblings, Butch who died much too young, and Patrick and Priscilla whom I never met ….. siblings in this life, we’ll all meet again

      Priscilla E. Cline 12/25/1955

      Patrick Elvin Cline 1/30/1957

      Luther Butch Edward Cline 6/1/1960 - 8/4/1995

      My ‘third son’ who I claimed as mine as a teenager. He fought a valiant battle with cancer, but lost just as his adult life was beginning.

      Mark Gloyd 11/25/1980 - 12/27/2005

      My stepdad, who also lost the war with the insidious villain, cancer

      Chuck Burk 11/29/1934 – 8/21/1986

      Grandparents …. The best part of being a child:

      Vernon Beatrice Jones and Evan Lewis (Casey) Jones

      Mildred Cline and Cecil Cline

      Special Friends, whose memories live on through our hearts and our memories:

      Beatrice Bender, Pauline Washburn, & Ellie Milek

      My dear friend Becky’s daughter, who died unexpectedly and much too young, changing her parents lives forever, but not their hearts.

      Sarah Woolery 1/20/1978 - 3/23/2002

      The re-birth of flowers is like the cycle of life--there is no end, only a future.

      Becky and Herlin Woolery

      May all their memories live on in our hearts.

      Introduction

      Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

      With carnations for Grandpa Jones … red flowers for Grandma Jones; they must be red … violets for Grandma Cline … And zinnias, definitely zinnias for my brother, Butch. (Luther, he whispers softly in my ear. Sorry my dear brother, after 35 years of calling you Butch, Butch it is.)

      Traces of these dear souls that touched my life are scattered throughout the house; the clock my Grandpa made, the clock my brother gave me for a long-ago birthday or Christmas present, the milk glass candy dish from Grandma Jones, the quilt from Grandma Cline, the cookbooks from several close friends. These physical items are more than just a book, a clock, a dish or a quilt. They are keys that open the floodgates of memories, keeping the spirits

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