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| User: | earthlydelights (9254151) Earthly Delights
A gardening column |
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| Name: | Shari | |||||
| Location: | San Jose, California, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 05-16 | |||||
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| Bio: | Hi! :) I'm Shari, a 30-something writer, editor and photographer. I'm also a lifelong resident of the Santa Clara Valley, the Bay Area of Northern California. It's said people write best about what they know. It's also said that people surround themselves with what they love. These may be cliché, but in the case of this gardening column, they're also true. I've always loved the plant kingdom. I wasn't born with a green thumb, but perhaps a green pointer finger—my mother says I always pointed at flowers as a baby. As a child I remember wedging lima beans between wet blotter paper rolled inside a glass jar, watching them germinate and feeling fascination and awe. I feel the same today, whether I'm sprouting acorns, sowing a swath of wildflowers, rooting strawberry runners, making jade plant cuttings or just watching a transplanted sapling grow into a sturdy tree. The way some folks collect novels, I collect field guides and gardening books. The way some folks read the dictionary, I read the Sunset Western Garden Book, which many West Coast greenthumbs have nicknamed—and rightly so—their "Bible." I'm not a horticulturist, arborist, nursery owner or Master Gardener, but true to my second cliché, I seem to be surrounded by them. Between what they've taught me, and what I've learned—and continue to learn—in both theory and practice, I could talk happily for days. But I'll have to settle for writing happily in my column, Earthly Delights! Questions, suggestions and comments are always welcome. Please also feel free to add me to your Live Journal friends list; I'll do the same in return. | |||||
| Interests: | 104: annuals, arboriculture, bacteria, bay area, beneficial insects, biennials, bonsai, botany, bulbs, bushes, cacti, california, carnivorous plants, column writing, composting, container gardening, copy editing, corms, cross-pollination, cultivars, digital photography, drought tolerant species, edible flowers, editing, epiphytes, fertilizer, flowers, freelance writing, freelancing, fruit, fruit trees, fungi, fungus, garden shows, gardening, gardens, germination, grafting, grass, greenthumb, greenthumbs, heirlooms, herbs, horticulture, house plants, houseplants, hybridization, hybrids, invasive species, journalism, landscapes, landscaping, lawns, leaves, magazines, master gardeners, media, microclimates, mulch, native species, newspapers, northern california, nurseries, oak trees, orchids, organic gardening, parasites, pathogens, perennials, pests, photography, photosynthesis, plants, pollination, pruning, rhizomes, santa clara county, santa clara valley, saprophytes, seed exchange, seeds, shade gardening, shrubs, sod, soil, south bay, succulents, sudden oak death, sunset, sunset western garden book, symbiosis, trees, tubers, urban gardening, vegetable gardening, vegetables, vines, water gardening, web content, weeds, west coast, wildflowers, writing, xeriscaping | |||||
| Schools: | Gunderson High School - San Jose, CA San Jose State University - San Jose, CA | |||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 5: beckerbuns, pirateonthebay, raininroses, scaryshari, soojaebi | |||||
| Account type: | Basic Account | |||||
