The Joy of a Minimalist Garden

Enjoy today’s gardening stories from the heart. [GreenPrints Daily](  August 23, 2023 Enjoy this newsletter? Please forward it to your friends.  Today’s Featured ArtPrint [ArtPrint] “Beautiful dresses, lovely flowers, little girls—it’s time for a Summer tea party!” —Kristi McCabe  [Gardening Mishaps]( [Get Top Poems with a Gardening Setting!]( With the Gardening Poems Collection, you get GreenPrints poems that help you find some literary fun with gardening as the background. And please remember, poems don’t have to rhyme—just entertain you! [Learn More …](  Today’s Daily Story [The Joy of a Minimalist Garden]( [Daily Story]  Is a minimalist garden in your cards? It should be! Minimalism is one of those things we all strive for, but so few of us achieve. My minimalism goes in bursts. Once a year, I rent a dumpster and use my local “sell nothing” group to give away as much excess as I can before it arrives. Whatever doesn’t go, gets gleefully tossed in the dumpster. The thrill of removing things from my space is like a hot stone massage to my soul. I’ve probably caused permanent damage to my daughter, but so far she hasn’t turned into a hoarder. [Read More...](  [Summer 2023]( [GreenPrints: The Only Gardening Magazine to Warm Your Heart!]( GreenPrints is a unique magazine, just like a gardening pal who shares wonderful, humorous, and entertaining gardening stories with you. Quarterly magazine issues are filled with heartwarming gardening stories every season of the year! [Learn More …](  Today’s Premium Magazine Story | Summer 2022 [Eating the Rainbow]( [Premium Magazine]  A lot of nutritionists these days are urging us to eat our way through the color wheel. The Seven Day Color Diet, for example, first popularized in 2003, suggests choosing food of a different color for each day of the week. On Red Day, for example, diners eat tomatoes, apples, and cranberries; on Orange Day, squash, carrots, and sweet potatoes. (The seven recommended colors—they cheat a bit —are White, Red, Green, Orange, Purple, Yellow, and Rainbow.) [Read More...](  [back issue bundle]( [Check Out Our Back-Issue Sets Now!]( Get your GreenPrints Back-Issue Sets right now! Buy the 2021 4-Issue Bundle—or the 100-Issue Bundle—while issues last! [Learn More …](  Today’s Premium Collection Story | Joy of Gardening [The Stump]( [Premium Collection]  I was in my 20s when I bought my first house, a dilapidated Victorian in the little town of Winters, California. I was delighted to get out of my 8 x 21 trailer, even though my new house had knob and tube wiring and didn’t really have a bathroom or foundation. All in good time. The greatest thing I did gain was a monster area for a garden, with the sweetest soil this side of heaven. There were just two problems: a medium-sized stump and a monster stump. [Read More...](  [Tote Bag]( [$5 August Back-Issue Clearance Sale!]( Get all our back issues and bundles for only $5 an issue. Hurry! Limited quantities available. [Only $5 Now!](  [FREEBIES: Get Them Now!]( [Ornamental Garden Chart]( [Read More …]( [Butterfly Garden Chart]( [Read More …]( [Butterfly Garden Chart]( [Read More …](  About GreenPrints Magazine: GreenPrints brings you joy, humor, inspiration, projects, artwork, and advice from our worldwide community of gardening writers, humorists, and illustrators. Our stories, artwork, and kits will touch your heart, lift your spirits, and provide you hours of entertainment about all things gardening. Our interactive projects will help you build your community, beautify your home, and be a more successful gardener and happier human being. More than 250,000 gardening enthusiasts share the joy, laughter, and camaraderie that can only be found with GreenPrints. You are receiving this email as part of your free subscription to email updates from GreenPrints Magazine. If you no longer wish to receive this update as part of your free subscription, please click the unsubscribe link below. [MANAGE PREFERENCES]( [Unsubscribe]( Help us be sure your email update isn't filtered as spam. Adding our return address CustomerCare@GreenPrints.com to your address book may 'whitelist' us with your filter, helping future email updates get to your inbox. [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Send us a message]( Copyright © 2023 Mequoda Systems, LLC GreenPrints Magazine P.O. Box 1537, Attleboro, MA 02703 Email: CustomerCare@GreenPrints.com [Our Privacy Policy]( Having trouble viewing this email? [View online](.