Kay L.

About Kay L.

I’m a freelance writer and content creator with a passion for storytelling and gardening. My love of flowers started when I was given a book on floriography and realized that flowers can be used to communicate hidden meaning. Since then, I’ve rediscovered the joy of nature and the far-reaching impacts it can have on the human psyche. In my spare time, I collect crystals, write fantasy fiction stories, and create eclectic art.

Latest from Kay L.

Creepy Plants for the Spooky Season
Creepy Plants for the Spooky Season
In urban legend, there’s always this one house that’s rumored to be haunted – every forsaken neighborhood that time forgot has one. The weeds are overgrown, shadows flit from darkened windows, and a pervasive feeling of dread permeates the rotting...
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Mad Honey: Bioweapon and Hallucinogen
Mad Honey: Bioweapon and Hallucinogen
It fells armies and precipitates delirium. No, it’s not something that’s found in Harry Potter.  Throughout history, humans have sought exceedingly dangerous hallucinogens in the pursuit of that elusive thrill, occasionally at the cost of their lives. Fun fact: centuries...
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Houseplant Haven: Turning your House into an Indoor Oasis
Houseplant Haven: Turning your House into an Indoor Oasis
Houseplants have a reputation for being boring, like that unsociable political aide that nobody likes or the grouchy inventor whose invention perpetually fails. Yet, whether you’re a middle-aged cat lady or an ambitious entrepreneur, houseplants resonate with the human psyche...
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Zero Waste Gardening
Zero Waste Gardening
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? This absurd title for a dark drama probably eludes most people, only resonating with certain literary types. Now, let’s change it up a little. Who’s afraid of zero-waste gardening? This might incur more show of...
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14 Best Fall Flowers to Grow
14 Best Fall Flowers to Grow
At the end of summer, the landscape tends to become barren, falling into decline as surely as a moldering stone statue in a decaying great house. Yet, fall brings with it its own set of perks: cozy sweaters, pumpkin-themed decorations...
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Vegetables and Fruits Used to Color and Dye Foods
Vegetables and Fruits Used to Color and Dye Foods
“Green Eggs and Ham” is a whimsical children’s show that’s also popular among adults. In the underrated Netflix show, Sam constantly pesters his curmudgeonly companion, Guy, to take a bite of his favorite dish, the titular green eggs and ham....
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Strange Fruit: 8 Vegetables and Fruits That Used to Look a Lot Different
Strange Fruit: 8 Vegetables and Fruits That Used to Look a Lot Different
There are several things that come to mind when viewing a depiction of a watermelon done by Giovanni Stanchi, a 17th century Italian painter: ‘weird’, ‘surreal,’ and maybe even ‘fascinating. Among a cornucopia of staid fruits (peaches, pears, and squashes)...
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Towards the Sun: 10 of the Best Sunflowers to Grow
Towards the Sun: 10 of the Best Sunflowers to Grow
If you have a strong imagination, you might find the claim that sunflowers face each other on downcast days heartwarming. Alas, the anthropomorphic attempt to humanize them is a false claim that has no basis in evolutionary biology.  Yet, sunflowers...
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Victorian Gardens: Now and Forever
Victorian Gardens: Now and Forever
The Victorian era may have been codified as the era of mourning, but Victorian gardens were anything but drab. The Victorian age, eclipsed in the latter stages by the Gilded Age, was a time of stark opulence, the refined noble...
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Frogs in the Garden: Attracting Froggie Friends
Frogs in the Garden: Attracting Froggie Friends
Take a trip down to the bayou, and you’ll encounter many things of the creepy-crawly variety: alligators, snakes, and maybe even a shack-dwelling necromancer, not to mention frogs. The presence of frogs and toads in wetlands are an indicator of...
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Kay L.

About Kay L.

I’m a freelance writer and content creator with a passion for storytelling and gardening. My love of flowers started when I was given a book on floriography and realized that flowers can be used to communicate hidden meaning. Since then, I’ve rediscovered the joy of nature and the far-reaching impacts it can have on the human psyche. In my spare time, I collect crystals, write fantasy fiction stories, and create eclectic art.