See the healing power of daisies today!

Enjoy this inside look at The Weeder’s Reader — a special issue of GreenPrints. You’ll love this story! [GreenPrints]( June 20, 2023  [STEP INTO A HEALING GARDEN OF ONE MILLION DAISIES!]( It’s taken a while, but many hospitals and mental health facilities now build healing gardens for their patients. Nothing can change your mindset as easily as the scent of a lilac bush in bloom, or fresh-cut grass on bare feet. Nature restores us. Rejuvenates us. Heals us. In fact, some doctors have started writing prescriptions — for nature walks! How about that? Modern medicine getting back to nature. In GreenPrints, we share stories about the healing power of gardening, plus funny stories that can be real gut-busters (don’t sip your coffee while reading; don’t say we didn’t warn you). Read these “gardening stories from the heart” to get a breath of fresh air before you even step outside! Become a [GreenPrints All-Access Member]( today to get stories that amuse, inspire, entertain, and even heal. These “gardening stories from the heart” are reading for your enjoyment, fulfillment, and personal enrichment—you’ll always find stories of hope and inspiration whenever you read an issue! For example, check out this story from of The Weeder’s Reader — a wonderful story of hope and healing: [One Million Daisies]( For my mother. By Marilyn Kendall [St. Fiacre] A million daisies have invaded my mother’s garden. They grow rampant among the phlox and delphinium, the lilies and the roses. She doesn’t want their scraggly disorder in her picture-perfect beds, but she cannot stand to kill anything, especially a flower. In her stronger—or weaker—moments she attempts to eradicate them, but they always fi nd their way back into her garden. Into her heart. On this early morning of my summer visit, while my mother sleeps, I am deadheading these daisies—a million times a million of them, it seems—and thinking of her. At 86, she is still sturdy, and stalwart—and stubborn, at times. She wants the fl owers but not their mess, so I must tread carefully in her beloved garden. I hate this job. Capture a dead bloom, separate it from its confederates, and follow its stem down several inches (so the stub won’t show), taking care not to cut too many leaves and deplete the plant. Then snip, toss the stem into the refuse bin, fi nd another, an start again. I mustn’t falter in my attention and sacrifice a live bloom. Snip, snip, snip. I must have cut ten thousand at least. I look the length of the garden at the multitudes remaining. After half an hour, the beauty of the early morning no longer compensates for my aching back. I stand. She doesn’t need all these, I think. Why not just pull half out by their roots? Or cut the old heads by the fistful, rather than singly? No one would notice from a few feet away. But I know I won’t, and I wonder why. My mother doesn’t expect this fussiness. Somehow, without reason, I expect it for her, knowing how she loves every petal and leaf. Just as she loved her children, I suddenly reflect: perfectly, proudly, with attention to every detail, every emotion, every need. In spite of our flaws. I am struck by the thought: If my mother didn’t love daisies, would she have loved me so well? Back on my knees, I recall the lunches packed, the clothes sewed, the hair curled, the ruffles ironed. I think of the eons of advice, of comfort, of concern. I snip and I count. Snip and count. The morning passes. A million daisies may not be enough. ❖ Illustration by Heather Graham Dear Reader, What a moving story! Marilyn Kendall shares her story of tending her mother’s garden, and how she turned a tedious task into a way to count her blessings. GreenPrints has published many stories just like this —heartwarming stories that can show us where to find hope and healing. The Weeder’s Reader includes more stories of hope, such as: - “My New Year’s Garden” from the Winter 2022-03 issue - “Picking Corn” from the Summer 2015 issue - “Three Roses” from the Winter 2014-15 issue - “Love and Daffodils Forever” from the Autumn 2000 issue - “Garden Meditation” from the Premiere issue of GreenPrints, in Spring 1990 The Weeder’s Reader is a fabulous compendium of some of the best stories GreenPrints has published over the years. We have these and dozens more inspirational stories in our Library—and coming up in future issues! Please read what some subscribers say about how GreenPrints affects their lives: “The wonderful stories in the magazine have given me hope about mankind. We are surrounded by sad and difficult times in a polarized culture. Your heartful approach and spirit shine through. Thank you!” —Cathy Gornick, New Hartford, NY “I’m renewing for three years. I’m not sure I’ll be around in three years. But I want to make sure you are!” —Susan Ward, Middleton, WI “Thank you, GreenPrints family, for providing calm, joy, and wisdom in these crazy times.” —Lee Ann Hawkins, Marion, IN Including this featured story—“One Millions Daisies”—you get all 16 stories in the GreenPrints Special Issue Weeder’s Reader only with an [All-Access Membership](. Filled with stories that inspire, amuse, and heal, The Weeder’s Reader, like all issues of GreenPrints, also includes specially commissioned artwork with every article, to enhance the stories and entertain you—illustrations that are thought-provoking and just plain fun! 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