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Read this collection now to experience the joy of gardening! [GreenPrints]( April 18, 2023 [GET instant JOY Every single time you read one of these delightful gardening stories!]( When you read this GreenPrints Special Collection Joy of Gardening: Engaging & enjoyable stories to lift your spirits, you get more than 60 delightful and joyous stories that you'll connect with and come to relish. Start reading—and enjoying—these motivational stories right now! Dear Gardener, You deserve to have joy in your life every day! When you read the special GreenPrints Collection [Joy of Gardening: Engaging & enjoyable stories to lift your spirits]( today, you get instant joy from stories that you'll connect with ... and will find worth reading again whenever you need a pick-me-up. Joy and happiness are essential functions for a good life. And gardeners are certainly known for having tons of joy. [Joy of Gardening Collection]( In fact, joy and happiness deliver you many benefits: - Being joyous and positive can increase your productivity levels—and that means a more productive garden! - Happier people engage in more exercise—and gardeners get their share of exercise on a regular basis! - When you exude joy, other people want to be around you and that means healthier relationships in every aspect of your life! - Joy also contributes to better physical health—studies show that happier people are more resistant to colds and viruses and even heal faster! - And a really big bonus: Joy and happiness have been found to contribute to a longer, healthier life so get out there and enjoy every minute! “Waiting for Zinnias” is just one of the 60+ stories in the GreenPrints Special Collection [Joy of Gardening: Engaging & enjoyable stories to lift your spirits]( that will delight you and give you great joy. Literally, you could sit down once a day and read a story from this Collection, and you’ll get daily joy for more than two months straight—plus, this Collection is growing regularly, so you’ll soon have even more stories to access! And there’s nothing wrong about going back and re-reading your favorite stories as another way to get a daily dose of joy. Here's the story from the GreenPrints Collection [Joy of Gardening: Engaging & enjoyable stories to lift your spirits]( entitled "Waiting for Zinnias"—you’ll feel the joy of colorful zinnias after you read this! [Waiting for Zinnias]( Every Autumn, the wait begins again. By Jennie Ivey [Plastic Fork] It's early October and my zinnias are ugly. Their stems have grown brown and brittle. Their curled-up leaves are mottled and mildewed. In their glory days, most of the plants were almost as tall as me. Now they're bent and broken, lying close to the ground as though begging to be run over with the mower. But I can't say good-bye to the zinnias just yet. I continue to cut every half-decent bloom I can find. I stuff pitiful bouquets into juice glasses and canning jars in a last desperate attempt to hang on to something I'll be grieving for the next several months: Summer. I'll wait impatiently until Mother's Day rolls around next year. Then I'll pull a worn paper sack from the top shelf of my hall closet, where its contents have been kept cool and dry for six long months. I'll thrust my hand into the sack and gently work my fingers over the deadheaded zinnias inside. Thousands of seeds will fall off and settle at the bottom. I'll stir and stir those seeds until they're all mixed up. Why? Because I love a messy zinnia bed. Lots of different colors. Lots of different sizes. Lots of different varieties, all growing willy-nilly along the rock wall in my backyard. The ground in front of that wall has been ready and waiting for months. I deadheaded the zinnias after the first frost. Then I pulled up the stems, laid them on the dirt, and covered them with deep piles of chopped leaves. In early Spring, I turned the earth over three different times. Each time I attacked whatever weeds dared to show their faces and then raked the dirt smooth. [Plastic Fork] On the second Sunday in May, when all danger of frost has passed in my part of Tennessee, I'll plant. First I'll wet down the bed with the garden hose. Then I'll reach into the worn paper sack, pull out a handful of seeds, and scatter them as though I'm throwing scratch to a flock of chickens. Up and down the length of the flowerbed I'll go until my sack is empty. I'll tromp barefoot on the damp earth until all the seeds are buried. Then I'll wait. In about a week or so, green specks will sprout, so tiny I will wonder if they're a mirage. But sure enough, in a couple of days, I'll know they're the real thing. Life has renewed itself. There'll be zinnias once again. I'll keep the fragile plants watered. I'll thin them where they're too thick and fill in spots that are too sparse. I'll weed. I'll mulch. Then, one wonderful day, there will appear a fistful of blooms. A week later, dozens. Then hundreds. Soon, every room in my house will be filled with zinnia bouquets, and I'll be reminded why June and July are my favorite months of the year. But August will follow, hot and humid, and my zinnias will begin to wilt and fade. By early Autumn, they'll be positively ragged. Ugly. In the way. But I won't pull them up or mow them down. Not for a while. The zinnias and I will limp toward the cold, dark months together, just as we've always done. I'll cut the last few decent blooms and stuff pitiful bouquets into anything that holds water. Then I'll wait for the first frost, when I can collect the deadheads. And begin the blessed cycle all over again. Illustration by Linda Cook Devona What a joyous and inspiring story! Sure, there's the less-fun part about zinnias wilting and dying, but you get the anticipation of joy when they return: Then, one wonderful day, there will appear a fistful of blooms. And the GreenPrints Collection [Joy of Gardening: Engaging & enjoyable stories to lift your spirits]( has many more stories for you—more than 60 stories that deliver you gardening joy, delight, and inspiration! Including this featured story — "Waiting for Zinnias" — you get all 60+ stories in this GreenPrints Special Collection on gardening joy and happiness, including: [Joy of Gardening TOC 1]( [Joy of Gardening TOC 2]( [Joy of Gardening TOC 3](  [Joy of Gardening Collection]( And new stories are being added to this Special Collection all the time—you get access to all of them! Please read what some subscribers say about how GreenPrints helps and entertains them: “Fun and informational story. 🙂 I love zinnias, one of my favorite Summer flowers! 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