I hope so. Words and phrases that rhyme with Alexis. As a child, I remember being engulfed in the Laura Ingalls Wilder books imagining the woods and prairie settings along with the cabin interiors. I loved those adventurous stories and the magic that happened (cue my later obsession with Harry Potter), but they also presented real facts and history in a way that was so beautiful and interesting. Where babushka bakes a cake with her granddaughter in the storm. Flower gardening has only been in my life a few years. My parents were constant readers. I guess I probably looked at magazines like Better Homes and Gardens, as thats what my mother had around the house, not so much on books. 60 years later, I remember just how much the books I read shaped my imaginative play with friends. They filled me with such joy! 5. Absolutely adore this flower farm and New Zealand Cant wait to check out this book! The Lord Of The Rings movies boded us and we have journeyed together through Tolkien, through Lewis, and thus through the Star Wars and Marvel universe. I think that something about having an adventure and being independent were the things that attracted me. The love of dirt and growing your own beauty in a vase. I love how they were interactive and different, I think the books have helped shape me as someone who likes to think outside of the box, be a little different/quirky, follow your passions and interests and dont worry about the crowd. For me it symbolized gazing into something small and creating a world. My mom took us to the library every week during summer break. How did you come up with the concept? I have recently become a fan of multi-colored roses like Ziggy, featured in your interview. Andrews books. My blossoming heart looks to you. As an adult, I notice that I still have that same curiosity and find so much fun and intrigue in a good mystery. I love seek and find books and always brought them for my 3 kids, we equally enjoyed the search over and over. As an adult, I enjoy being curious, figuring things out, laughing, and finding joy in little things. We would also read magazines passed to us by a neighbor. No matter if its fiction or non- it all works my imagination. Lewis and I treasured a copy of The Wizard of Oz I have from the 1950s. My daughter loves seek & find books, this would be wonderful to look through together. I read Nancy Drew, Golden Books(including The Golden Encyclopedia), Beauty & The Beast, all the Winnie- THE POOH books, Walt Disneys Secrets of Life, and Alice in Wonderland! This interview brought up ALL the magic. What an absolutely gorgeous book!! Having to navigate weather, infestation and poor soil you could lose crops & build up healthy gardens. My favorite books growing up!!! Secret Garden was one of my all time favorites; it showed empathy and something that I now know for sure: nature does heal. This book looks absolutely beautiful; thank you for the opportunity to win a copy! We absolutely loved seeing the islands, trekking, fishing and exploring the people and places. Floret only lists companies and products that we love, use, and recommend. Thanks for introducing me to this wonderful flower grower and the beauty she and her mum being into the world . Ham/lamb? I like to make rhyming games shout-out games. I have memories of my grandpa reading this book to us over and over, while us grandchildren were clustered around the sofa peering over his shoulder. What a lovely book, Zo!! Thank you for this interview with all the stunning photography too. I also loved beautiful coffee table books about art, travel, and nature photography. My mother read to us very night before bed, we four girls curled up around her. As much as the adventures she went on! I hope they helped me with my love of the Lord. Such a lovely conversation! Alexis Skyy originally appeared in Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood and is most known for her feud with Masika Kalysha over their shared baby daddy, Fetty Wap. Ive always loved her beautiful illustrations! They showed me magic in quite literally everything, and gave me the ability to mitigate my circumstances on a whim. As a young child I was into poetry. Theres magic in the world around us, and I see this with my children when they play. I had a list of characters, more than I needed. Now, as I start my flower journey, I seek out learning opportunities to better my understanding of soil/soil health, bio-diversity. When I was young, I loved The Magic Treehouse books. The book was about a boy who wanted a pig. As a child, I loved Magic Eye books in which there was a very specific color palette and pattern on each page but hidden within the pattern was the general outline of a picture. I loved the Richard Scarry Best [fill in the blank] Book Ever books. Charlottes Web. My favorite book as a child was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. It peaked my imagination and I truly believe my unstoppable sense of exploration stems from that book. I look forward to reading this ew took from down under. Illustrated Fairy Tales launched me into a lifelong love of nature and the outdoors. Its a whole new wonderful world in flowers and gardening. The illustrations are completely magical, where children play in forests live in hollowed trees, discovers flowers, scavenge for berries and befriend animals. Have fond memories of my cousin visiting and we would sleep in the attic bedroom, laugh and giggle and read our Nancy Drew books. Im sure that explains my penchant for dreaming up new adventures in travel and creativity. I also was entranced by the I Spy books and the Sammy books, which were a similar concept, when I was young. Octopus, octopus, eight arms to hold you, Ill squeeze you tight until you turn blue. Cu alii malis albucius duo, in eam ferri dolores periculis. I loved to pick them, arrange, and give them to elderly people. I loved so many books as a childhard to choose just one! Laura Ingalls Wilders Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables stand out as my biggest influences. Zoes book looks wonderful, she has an incredible eye for colour. I love and have always loved books filled with drawings and paintings of fairies and imaginary creatures and plants, with poetry and stories. Thank you for sharing this interview and the pictures! Also the companionship of a dog and owner is truly amazing. In many ways Nancy was a role model for me- shes such a strong young women, relentlessly working to solve the problem and absolutely NAILING IT! With the very limited library that we have in school, I would always skim through books and look at pictures which later developed my interest with graphic novels/comic books. Luckily there was ice in the icebox. As a kid, I liked the Arnold Lobel books. I was so intrigued by these flowers, so different from the tropical flowers in my Motherland. The scale of damage is beyond anything I have ever seen, so many have lost everything and many are still cut off with no access in or out. It was delightful to read again as an adult with my own children. This book looks lovely and one I definitely need., horses (i were in love with this animal so beautiful, sensitive and intelligent) books, with a lot of pictures because i draw them and i looked a british series on a farm with horses folly foot.otherwise my sister red me thousand timessss la chvre de M. Seguin the goat wants her freedom.voil:). But, when my daughter was young, we loved the Where is Waldo series, that is a great seek and find book for young children. It has collections organized into sections with titles that children can totally relate too. Little House on the Prairie books. Growing up I read anything I could get my hands on. Ham/jeans? As an adult my husband bought me Florets Flower books(2 of them) and now I cant wait to add to my collection. I was drawn to the beautiful illustrations and the sweet fun story of a boy who lost his mitten in the snow and these woodland creatures who find it and all start to pile in to the freshly knitted mitten. What a delight to see these beautiful, vivid photos. I loved staying up late into the night reading The Boxcar Children, A to Z Mysteries, and The Magic Treehouse. You can share happiness with others and not use them to the point of no return. I just finished the Floret course and it was a splendid experience (although I still have one module to complete module 4 sorry about that, Erin I got a little behind!) Mais aujourdhui en tant quadulte jadore lire des livres qui parle de croissance personnelle, ou encore des livres de tricot ( jadore le tricoter) et rcemment jai dcouvert quil y avait des fermes florale , chose que je ne savais pas que cela existait. My dad influenced me to be a constant reader, always carrying a book with me for that few minutes of waiting time that I can fill with a good tale. Now I have a small but robust vegetable garden, fruit trees, and many flowers. That is a hard question for me as a lover of books since a very young age. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Recently I was riding with a friend in her car, and she had all sorts of fabric and sewing notions in the back seat. A Z from a fire escape. I have to say that Madeline and all the adventures she had were my favorite. I loved reading Laura Ingalls Wilder books, and Nancy Drew mysteries. One of my favorite books growing up was Shel Silversteins Where the Sidewalk Ends. When raising our two girls our family all fell in love with hide-and-seek books and spent many a wonderful night finding things through theirs eyes. Though my life is very different I find that now, the things that give me the most pleasure are working in my own home cleaning, baking bread, and working on my own land. Growing up in a family that moved around a lot, I loved reading about families in small towns and traditions. I loved her sense of adventure and playing in the outdoors. Blue Willow by Doris Gates is a lovely tale of a migrant farm workers daughter who has one blue willow plate that she relishes. I would go on to read every story in the series and then every horse adventure I could find. As a child I loved The Giving Tree. Yours Thank you! I was truly touched by this article as I feel in love with the Ziggy bloom. I related to the uncomplicated sweetness of the story and the first tastes of freedom going off into a row in the patch to either feast on berries or to try to fill my bucket. How will I use these flowers? Anything historical. I am still a child I think- I love books about animals and magic. My Mom would read it to me over and over. Nancy Drew Mystery Books. Im still so fond of all of these stories and my love for the natural world certainly stems from my imaginations of the secret worlds and lives of animals and gardens and forests. As a young child I was enamored by books portraying animals wearing clothing living in furnished homes underground, in trees, miniature houses tucked away in the middle of forests or beautiful gardens. I love love love the book What Is A Whispery Secret? When I was old enough to read The Secret Garden I felt that it had been written just for me! I used to dream of walking around exploring all of the ruins at the site and listening to the Howler monkeys. I loved yet feared Maurice Sendaks Where the Wild Things Are. Im definitely intrigued to venture into this artistic beauty contained in a book. I have enjoyed veggie gardening for 50 years. Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand The death & dying series was heartbreaking, but would remind me that life is short & to cherish your loved ones. I would take some thick, heavy books with me when we went on vacation and pick flowers from that area and press along our journeys. I loved cats and nature, so I would conjure up escapades for Nina my Russian Grey to go around sorting things and issues even if it was in space. We lived in the country and I would go out into the fields and pretend I was the characters, perfectly happy amongst the flowers. I was a swimmer as well so jumping right into the ocean ( cold since we were on the northern part of CA) was my treat. Growing up, I loved the illustrated books of fairy tales and faraway places. Another stand out for me was the Secret Garden, the first time flowers and magic reeled me in to a beautiful story. . My favorite books as a child were Dr Seuss books. The photographs and stories really opened up my mind and made me realize there is so much to learn and explore. I remember being truly changed by a few: where the red fern grows, modoc, the wizard of oz series.. I do remember loving choose your adventure books, then later babysitters club and sweet valley high moving into more developed thrillers by Christopher pike and RL Stine. Its no wonder I became a biologist and a Master Gardener in Illinois. Blossoming trees! Barb Hartle March 2 2023 I loved finding the images in the Magic Eye books too. To have a girl identified protagonist who didnt fit in and learned to both feel entitled to and manage her anger at the wrongs of the world was very impactful. From the cover to the last page, I was enchanted by the idea that there was a secret garden that had been abandoned and was there to not only tell of the past, but held the opportunity to become a beautiful part of the future. And I still LOVE to read. As a child the library was a world of wonders unfurling in each book. by Lois Hobart, Martha Alexander (Illustrator). Robin McKinleys novel Rose Daughter (a retelling of Beauty and the Beast) cemented roses as the most romantic flower in my mind. Loved this mother daughter story it reminds me so much of how my own daughter and I work together Add flowers to the equation and it makes me long to see their lovely farm!!! Ham/lamb?" My favorite books as a horse crazy child were the Black Stallion books by Walter Farley. I continue to love visual puzzles and paired with flowers is just brilliant! Nature books, including plant and bird identification, nature crafts, wild edibles, gardening and how to make things were my favorites, story books based on those themes were even better! What a sense of adventure and exploration! Books wasnt something encouraged as a child living in a 3rd world. I later became a photographer very much inspired by those books. New Zealand is a beautiful country with wonderful people. It has been a real treasure in our family. Eventually I started to read the chapters aloud and finally reading whole books on my own. When imagining these stories and pretending outside, I was always drawn to the plants that my mom had around our home. The feeling of accomplishment as I read each volume was one of the first I remember. I was fascinated by the old ways of living. I have always loved books about the transformative qualities of being in nature and tending to living things. Houses full of secrets and warmth. Near rhymes (words that almost rhyme) with alexis: cathexis, sexist, sepsis, antisepsis. Its such a joyous, playful book and it was fun to spy some Floret seed packages woven into a few of your stunning imageswe appreciate the love! My older sister gave me books to read or read them to me and my Grandmother would sit and read as many books to me as I wanted! As a little girl my favourite book was an Enid Blyton fairy chapter book, I loved the magic within and would often make my own fairy gardens to match the stories. words that rhymes with alexis. The Secret Garden transformed each character with the healing only a garden can bring. Hence, my first rough draft, never published venture for Nina in a space ship. I think I read every Nancy Drew mystery book, some more than once. with my younger sister. Non fiction especially. I read the classics, christian fiction (thank you to grandma for her yard sale finds), romance (thank you to grandma for leaving your books laying around your house when we visited), science fiction, regular fiction. But I do have a very soft spot for poppies. Fun reliving this memory! Im glad to do it, cause its my delight. Ive always been an avid reader. As long as you cherish and celebrate it, it will always be there to bring you joy. Im a visual artist, a painter. I think that book pushed me to appreciate nature and flowers more, although I always have loved them; the graphic descriptions of an old dying garden hidden from the world behind crumbling stone walls and ever-climbing ivy sounded fantastical and yet, real, to me. Last year I planted a flower garden to capture that range of color. Quand jtais petite mon premier livre que jai aim tais mon livre de franais de premires anne .il y avait limage de la phrase qui tait crite et cela me fascinais ,car je navais jamais vu de livre avant il ny en avais pas chez moi, mais quand jai eu mes enfants (4) nos livres prfrs taient ceux de Beatrix Porter avec des desseins magnifiques pour accompagner de jolies histoires. Type a word and press enter to find rhymes. Now, that I learned a lot about her life, the paintings and her great love for flowers and nature of this outstanding woman , I can say , that she gave me so much inspiration for my own way of live and my passion for gardening as a grown-up person. Your Lost and Found book looks incredible. Now Im a homemaker and stay at home mom that lives in the country where my husband and I are starting our own little farm. I grew up in church in the 1950s being born in 1947. Of course, we would always beg for more! Now I learned 1st hand that the wanting & having had no relation to the responsibility and commitment. I am a woman of 70 years. Lewis books I remember our teacher reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe to us each day my favorite part of the day. I grew up with few resources, our trips to the library were a weekly highlight. The Best of Skagit Valley: A Visitors' Guide. When I moved to the states at 10, I read my first book (Harry Potter) and that opened my interest in reading and fantasy! I built forts and dug clams and found arrowheads. Thanks Erin! And Eternity in an hour Its interesting to think that some of the inspiration for what Im trying to achieve with this place visually comes from those books. Comments. Old English nursery rhyme about making tea. Creating hidden spaces with plants is satisfying, even the patience required for everything to grow is cultivated. After reading a book, I would often play at being the characters in the book. I am dating myself, but I read Nancy Drew series growing up. My favorite book was our big atlas. As a kid I enjoyed reading the Bailey School Kids series. As a child I most often read books that shared the stories of girls in the position of solving mysteries or having grand adventures. I really want to have a beautiful collection of New Zealand-bred roses throughout the field, so Im trialing a lot of new varieties from Matthews Roses. My favorite book as a little girl was Beatrix Potters book Peter Rabbit. I remember I loved the book Heidi as it is that I remember her reading to me. A lot of Newberry classics: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Ginger Pye, Island of the Blue dolphins, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Charlottes Web, A Wrinkle in Time, From the Mixed Up files of Mrs. Now that I have a daughter, and with my sons Im excited to share these classic imaginative stories with them. God bless you! Type any word here to find all the words that rhyme with it, 2023 Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com. Its all a mystery! Hi. I loved the Bobbsey Twins series (showing my age!). When I bought my old house, I loved living through the seasons to discover my own lost gardens and am delighted by ancient lilacs, lilies and flowering vines. I loved joke books and also poems. I mean, can you just picture it? So much freedom to roam! I really enjoyed reading the secret garden. As a child, I enjoyed reading books on states other than mine and countries. Zoes book is absolutely beautiful. Mystery books, because the main characters were always against the odds figuring out how to overcome challengesthis is often the essence of life, continuing to try despite the odds and challenges. Also other books about animals and all the different species were probably my favorite, not only did they provide information but colorful illustrations and photos of animals which fed my creativeness and artist side. Since a child, I have always loved reading historical non-fiction such as stories about the founding of our incredible country or legendary expeditions to far-flung places. What a talented artist. Growing up I enjoyed adventure/mystery books with a little sprinkle of romance. Over the years, my childhood copys binding weakened and pages were lost or crayoned over by my little sister. People helping others, like a man who couldnt walk receiving a cane someone carved for him out of love, or children who put secret gifts on an elderly womans porch to make her day, made my heart sing. A copy of Lost & Found would be a magical addition to my collection of gardening books. I see life to be lived in the moment with joy, and not to worry so much about the future or things that I cannot change. Anne of Green Gables was a particular favorite, but I love reading nearly anything and everything! I hope to grow some of my own with your wonderful seeds and start something new for my children and grandchildren. Little did I know growing up in the inter-mountain west I would end up living a few hours north of De Smet SD. Place all the food in one pile and the rhyming objects in another. I also loved the magazine Highlights with the best part being the search of the hidden items, simialr to Lost & FOund. I of course love that the main character is a whimsical little mouse named after a beautiful flower. Yes, as a child I loved seek-and-find books. Shel Silverstein. It holds those stories in my mind. Historical fiction has broadened my perspective of the world and causes me to have an appreciation for how far we have come in matters of social justice and equal rights. We (there were 6 of us) also loved The Berenstain Bear books. North Vancouver B.C. I was a massive Anne of Green Gables fan growing up anything that LM Montgomery wrote, I read it. It gave a message that a childs level of work is valuable and taking steps to achieve a desired end is possible. Zoes farm sounds amazing and so glad everyone is safe. This book looks amazing and is sure to connect our flower world with newfound imagination! The book sounds delightful!! Its so interesting to see how someones twists and turns in life contributed to their success, even when they thought those challenges were devastating at the time. Theres nothing quite so filling as a bowl of grain . I always went to the lost and found page first. Is be delighted to own a copy as I spent hours on end in my Wheres Waldo books. I think I have often killed my efforts of growing plants with kindness. I moved on to Little Women and Little Men, while admiring the gorgeous lily of the valley flowers planted by my favorite aunt on one long side of her house. Thanks for celebrating the beauty we can add to the mix! I have copies of my favorites of my favorites-vintagy and wonderful- to pass on down to my grandchildren. I loved The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe! I still think of these books fondly! My mothers Encyclopedias had the most beautiful pictures from places and animals around the world.