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Stimulate the Five Senses through Your Garden Submitted by Jackie Edwards, Guest Blogger  “Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden”  (Robert Brault).  Image courtesy of www.blogthecoast.com Gardening provides many miraculous benefits for a child’s development including fine motor skills, math skills, responsibility, and science. Children that spend time outside are also happier as the landscape helps to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and increase attention. When combining gardening with the use of all senses, you can further increase the benefits.

Wednesday's Wildflower: Tennessee Leafcup

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TENNESSEE LEAFCUP,   Polymnia laevigata  Beadle Aster Family (Asteraceae) Submitted by Roger Hammer Polymnia laevigata,  photo by Roger Hammer The lower leaves of this species reach 6"–12" long and 4"–6" wide and are deeply and raggedly cut with pointed lobes, reducing in size up the stem with few or no lobes. The 3'–6' stems are glabrous (smooth). The flower heads are about ½" wide, subtended by a whorl of leafy bracts, and with 3-toothed ray florets and male disk florets.