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February 14, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day!

I can always count on my friend and fellow blogger Teresa O'Connor of Seasonal Wisdom for a her wonderful holiday folklore.

It turns out, according to Teresa, that Valentine's Day IS about the birds and the bees.

Ok, maybe not the bees.

But Teresa writes that poets believed that birds chose their mates on Feb. 14, the feast day of their patron saint.

Read more on the history of Valentine's Day traditions from Teresa. And I hope the one you love remembers you on this day.

Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Barbara Taylor Haddock

Posted by Susan Reimer at 8:00 AM | Permalink
Categories: Garden history

About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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