Ripe for the picking: read our latest tales from the garden!

Read and listen to some of our favorite gardening stories today! [GreenPrints]( June 9, 2024   [GET YOUR JUNE 2024 ISSUE OF GREENPRINTS MAGAZINE WITH “Tarzan in the Garden” STORY NOW!]( Your GreenPrints Magazine June 2024 issue is ready for you to access and read right now. When you read this printable issue, you get joy, laughter, and inspiration. Get ready to settle in and read some great stories!  Dear Gardener, How does your garden grow? Here at GreenPrints Magazine, we’re tending our garden beds with high hopes of beautiful blooms and a healthy harvest! Our June 2024 issue of GreenPrints Magazine is a bounty of heartwarming, heartfelt tales from gardeners just like you. In this issue, all of our Stories from the Garden include audio recordings. Now you can garden, walk, and run errands—all while keeping GreenPrints with you! We’ve recorded all of our stories and articles so you can choose how to enjoy them. [Humor Collection]( Plus, in this June 2024 issue of GreenPrints: Read the latest issue of our GuideBooks in our “Gardening in America” series—[Vegetable Gardening in America](. Get an introduction to our new [Rooted in Love Story Collection](. Take a tour of Emily’s Enchanted Garden, part of our new [Emily Greenleaf & Friends StoryBook](. Plus, we share some of our favorite plants (and maybe some of yours!) in our Plants We Love section. And be sure to check out Club Notes, including the tale of Thelonius Munk and his culinary adventures! Now let’s take a sneak peek at one of our featured Stories from the Garden for this month. California’s not known for its gardens, but that doesn’t mean a gardener can’t dream. Find out how this gardener nurtured her own jungle in the wilds of Colorado! Read this excerpt from “Tarzan in the Garden”—or listen to the recorded version as you get on with your day! [Tarzan in the Garden]( Jungle Dreams: Cultivating a Tropical Haven in Colorado By Cheryl L. Davison Read by Matilda Longbottom [IMAGE](  [old man]  I had what I thought was a normal childhood, much like everyone else. I thought it was completely ordinary to come home from school to our bougainvillea-draped hillside garden where spiny plants like yucca and bird-of-paradise reigned supreme. And just like everyone else in our California neighborhood, we had a swimming pool; ours was no different. Except that Tarzan was in ours. Yes, well, not actually Tarzan but the current actor playing Tarzan on the big screen. You see, we were a family with ties to the movie industry, which was booming in the late 1950s and 60s. A well-known composer lived just across the street, a high-powered agent on the corner (representing said Tarzan actor), and a person who would grow up to be a world-renowned art dealer was just a few doors away. Our Tarzan thrilled all of the children by standing in the shallow end and allowing us to swarm up his body, stand on his shoulders, and dive off into the deep end, while he would obligingly give his best Tarzan yell. (The only one who ever did it better is Carol Burnett.) But he seemed out of place without the thick tropical jungle setting. All of the houses on this street had similar landscaping to ours, some of it a bit tropical looking, including palm trees and even citrus. The art dealer-to-be even had avocados in his backyard. But no one had a jungle. I wanted a jungle, a deeply forested one with flowery vines hanging down to swing on. I longed to wander through a dense, mysterious landscape populated by a whole slew of creatures (including Tarzan, of course). The landscape in the San Fernando Valley seemed unsatisfying to me. When I was about eight years old, my mother informed me that we were going to take the overnight train out of Union Station from Los Angeles to San Francisco because our neighbor (a singer on an afternoon show beamed live from there) had invited me to be an “extra” on their annual holiday show. I was to be decked out in holiday finery with a snowy muff and a furry hat (even though the outside temperature was 74 degrees). We boarded the train and until it got dark, I had pressed my nose against the glass, watching the rugged coastline go past. When I woke the next morning, we were in San Francisco, and since we had a few hours to spend until we were needed on the set, my mother decided to take me to the world-famous arboretum in Golden Gate Park. [Read More...]( Illustrated By Christy Page  That nature walk planted seeds of hope in this gardener’s heart to cultivate a jungle of her own. Read the whole story to see how she made her jungle dream come true! Our GreenPrints Magazine June 2024 issue has other inspiring and heartwarming stories for you—and all our Stories from the Garden now include audio, so you can take these stories with you wherever you go! Including this featured story—“[Tarzan in the Garden. Jungle Dreams: Cultivating a Tropical Haven in Colorado]( get all this content in the GreenPrints Magazine June 2024 issue—and remember, they all include audio! - “Chasing Moonflower Dreams”—one gardener’s relentless quest to coax the ever elusive moonflower into blossoming. - “The Language of Front Garden Flowers”—a family transforms a thorny thicket with welcoming garden blooms. - “Mowing Memories: A Journey with John Deere”—get a driver’s-eye view of cutting the grass and why it brings this writer so much joy. - “Radish Reverie: Cultivating Joy in the Roots of Life”—take a journey from garden to plate as you relish the artistry and flavor of the robust radish. - “Garden of Memories: A Splash into the Past”—each day in the garden connects this storyteller to his cherished past and his childhood days tilling the soil. - “The Resilient Pears: A Backyard Odyssey”—when life gives you lemons...and when life gives you pears? So many possibilities! - “Dan’s Dance with the Terrible Toad”—you can find nature encounters in the most unexpected places! - “The Great Garden Conundrum: A Tale of Strawberries and Tomatoes”—can these two tasty crops coexist? This gardener takes a philosophical approach to managing these garden rivals. - “Emily’s Enchanted Garden”—meet Emily Greeleaf, guardian of a garden unlike any other. Come walk in her garden of wonder and enchantment! More great reads! Don’t miss reading about our latest journeys into the wonderful world of gardening! - Vegetable Gardening in America—a GreenPrints GuideBook—just released and part of our new regular series of GuideBooks! With Vegetable Gardening in America, you get all-in-one-place practical advice about nurturing delicious vegetables in your home garden. - Emily Greenleaf and Friends—our latest GreenPrints StoryBook. Enjoy whimsical stories with delightful characters, from talking vegetables to singing frogs! - Rooted in Love—the latest gem in our GreenPrints Story Collection. Heartwarming, humorous, and sometimes downright hilarious tales of gardening and family—a timeless bond between generations. Get ready for hours of inspirational, humorous and heartfelt reading and listening with the June issue of GreenPrints Magazine. Settle into your favorite chair (or your favorite part of your garden!) for stories that are sure to make a smile bloom on your face! [GreenPrints all access]( [$10 SPECIAL! GET AN 83% DISCOUNT WHEN YOU CLAIM YOUR BENEFITS TODAY!]( [Claim your GreenPrints Garden Club All-Access Membership now, and you get all the gardening stories to delight you, make you laugh, and fill you with heartwarming inspiration and motivation. 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[Claim Your $10 Membership Now]( SUMMARY OF GREENPRINTS GARDEN CLUB ALL-ACCESS MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS 01 A full year of GreenPrints Garden Club All-Access Membership, an exclusive club for those who want to enjoy the greatest gardening stories ever and get tons of practical gardening advice, too—save $49 off the annual membership price, an 83% discount! $59/year Now Only: $10/year! 02 NEW magazine sections & expanded content in 2024! 1-year subscription to GreenPrints Magazine, printable monthly issues filled with: - Top-quality heartwarming stories—just like GreenPrints has published for nearly 35 years— including audio versions of all stories, so you can listen to them while you garden or while you’re on-the-go. - Monthly “Gardening Life” column by GreenPrints Founding Editor Pat Stone. - Practical gardening advice to help you improve your skills—in every issue. - New regular departments on gardening wisdom, humor, seasonal perspectives, and food plants that heal. - Three featured “Plants We Love” in every monthly issue! - Monthly recipes to help you use your food garden’s harvest. - Printable books, kits, and seasonal calendars to serve the crafter in you (or a family member or friend). 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