Gardens and Earth Sun Moon Trading Company: Garden Themed T-Shirts for Gardeners and Garden Lovers

Gardens promise beauty, joy, mystery, and peace for those attuned to personal and/or public paradises.

• Cultivating a garden -- whether in-ground or in-container -- is intended to be an amiable activity.
• Frustration over garden invaders, such as uninvited fauna or flora, may be seen as minor irritations in the grand scheme of overall satisfaction from gardening.
• Appreciation of gardens may found expression in active as well as vicarious gardeners.
• The only requirement for loving gardens is love.

In childhood, my plantings of popcorn (Zea mays var. everta) outside our back porch signaled my initiation into the exciting world of active gardening.

I can still remember the thrill of espying green sproutings within a few days of my first plantings.

Earth Sun Moon Trading Company pinpoints the wonderful counsel which gardens communicate and symbolize via their sproutings:

"Cultivate lasting friendships | Sow seeds of kindness | Listen to sage advice | Don't let the little things bug you | Be outstanding in your field | Take thyme for yourself | No Vining!"

Butterflies symbolize beauty and freedom with their coloring, ephemeral flutterings through this world.

• For me, butterflies epitomize the fullness of moments.
• Favorite childhood memories include a massive amount of timeless time chasing after and playing with butterflies.

Gardens may be seen as a way of saying "Thank you!" to butterflies, in addition to the irresistible invitation which gardens issue to these winged beauties.

• One of the many pleasures of in-ground or in-container gardens is the pleasant surprise of welcome visitors, such as butterflies and hummingbirds.
• How do these winged beauties know that a space, previously uninteresting, now serves up a cornucopia of nectar delights?

Earth Sun Moon Trading Company's "Advice from a Butterfly" is as captivating as these beautiful fliers as their wings whisper rainbows of natural beauty:

"Let your true colors show | Get out of your cocoon | Take yourself lightly | Look for the sweetness in life | Take time to smell the flowers | Catch a breeze | We can't all be monarchs!"

"Advice from a Butterfly" is available via Amazon as hats, sweatshirts, and t-shirts.

• "New Advice from a Butterfly" is a new release which casts the evocative verses within the butterfly's outline, as a form of concrete, or visual, poetry in fabric.

Earth Sun Moon Trading Company's butterfly-themed apparel is a joy to wear: chic, colorful, and soft.

Known by entomologists as ladybird beetles or lady beetles, Coccinellidae comprise a family of small beetles with orange, yellow, or scarlet wing covers spotted with black dots.

• Despite the fact that Coccinellidae are neither birds nor true bugs, in popular parlance, these cheery insects are known as ladybirds in the British Isles and British Commonwealth and as ladybugs in the United States.

Ladybugs are welcome as symbols of good luck.

• The presence of a ladybug is considered to be a blessing because the polka-dotted charmers have Our Lady Mary as their namesake.
• In gardens they are beneficial insects, serving as a natural, safe biological control of such garden pests as aphids, mites, and mealybugs.

Roses (Rosa) regale the senses with the sensational scents exuded by their flowers.

Honored as the Queen of Flowers, roses are also associated with Our Lady Mary.

Roses are among my favorite flowers because they remind me of my grandmothers:

• Laura, my maternal grandmother, was an exceptional garden-whisperer, and
• Rose, my paternal grandmother, also a garden-whisperer, was a great beauty, described as an "English Rose" because of her gorgeous complexion, blue eyes, fair hair, and English upbringing.

Earth Sun Moon Trading Company's "Advice from a Rose" is abloom with rosy magnificence:

"Make someone's day / Enjoy the sunshine / Remember your beauty stems from within / Be colorful! / Look past the thorns / Make new buds / Bloom! / Be scent-sational!"

"Advice from a Rose" is available via Amazon as hats, sweatshirts, and t-shirts.

Although Earth Sun Moon Trading Company achieves excellence in every product in their garden-themed apparel, "Advice from a Rose" especially warms my heart.

Pink is not a color which I wear often, but "Advice from a Rose" apparel peaks as the pink of perfection. "Pretty in pink" is a promise which is offered and kept by "Advice from a Rose."

Trees epitomize the heartstrings of life whereby achieving a balance of grounding downward in the earthly realm of daily life -- symbolized by roots anchored in and nourished by the earth -- with stretching upward into spiritual realms is seen as the major challenge of earthly existence for humans.

Since childhood, I have loved trees as places for exploration via climbing, for learning, and for shelter.

• Many happy hours were spent learning about the huge array of trees, their identifying features, and the fauna and flora which they attract and sustain.
• Particularly fascinating to me was my father showing me how to identify deciduous trees in winter when they lose so many of their significant features.
• Who hasn't uttered that wisecrack, rhetorical question favored by giggling children, "Why don't you make like a tree and leave?"

Earth Sun Moon Trading Company's "Advice from a Tree" spotlights the strength which trees impart to the landscape as they ease life for all living things:

"Stand tall and proud / Sink your roots into the earth / Be content with your natural beauty / Go out on a limb / Drink plenty of water / Remember your roots / Enjoy the view!"

"Advice from a Tree" is available from Amazon as hats, sweatshirts, and t-shirts.

"New Advice from a Tree" represents a newer version of the "Advice From" line in which verses are incorporated into the image's coloration and shape as a form of concrete, or visual, poetry in fabric.

As an arborist, I am committed to the inestimable value of trees as aesthetic, biological, and chemical participants in the world's landscapes.

"Advice from a Tree" apparel numbers among my favorite "Advice From" products offered by Earth Sun Moon Trading Company.

These tree-themed offerings may necessarily be essential components of the wardrobes of nature lovers, especially tree lovers and tree whisperers.

Wildflowers are so reliably pretty that they won the heart of a First Lady of the United States, Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 - July 11, 2007), who devoted her post-White House years to their preservation via the National Wildflower Research Center, which she co-founded on her 70th birthday, on December 22, 1982, with her wildflower-loving friend, actress Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993).

"Lady Bird" believed that "Where flowers bloom, so does hope."

Allotting space for a triptych of gardens -- flower, vegetable, and wildflower -- is a lifelong personal concern for me.

My favorite wildflower is chicory (Cichorium intybus), which lines my rustic driveway.

In honor of chicory and its pleasing blue flowers, I named my house "Chicory Cottage."