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From the Ted Talk by tobacco brown: What gardening taught me about life

Unscramble the Blue Letters


My mother cekood with the cloros and textures of her geardn. She bkead yams and squash and heirloom tomatoes and cotrras. She fed love to a generation of people with purple hull peas and greens. It seems that during my childhood, the blooms from my mother's gardens have heelad all the way from her halo to the rotos on the soles of our feet. In our last cnrovtaiseon before her death, she encouraged me to go anywhere in the world that would make me happy.

Since then, I have ptnlead her gardens through art installations throughout the world, in ctenruios of the people that I meet. Now they are liinng parks and courtyards, painted on walls and even in blighted lots off the street. If you were in Berlin, Germany, you would have seen my garden at Stilwerk Design Center, where rosemary and lavender, hydrangea and lemon balm trailed up the glass elevatros to all six floors. In 2009, I planted "Philosophers Garden," a garden mural, blooming at the historic Frederick Douglass High scohol in Memphis, tsseenene. This school’s garden fed an entire community and was honored by Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Again, in 2011, I planted at Court Square Park — six entry gardens with 80 varieties of deliciously fragrant floribunda and hybrid tea resos.

Open Cloze


My mother ______ with the ______ and textures of her ______. She _____ yams and squash and heirloom tomatoes and _______. She fed love to a generation of people with purple hull peas and greens. It seems that during my childhood, the blooms from my mother's gardens have ______ all the way from her halo to the _____ on the soles of our feet. In our last ____________ before her death, she encouraged me to go anywhere in the world that would make me happy.

Since then, I have _______ her gardens through art installations throughout the world, in _________ of the people that I meet. Now they are ______ parks and courtyards, painted on walls and even in blighted lots off the street. If you were in Berlin, Germany, you would have seen my garden at Stilwerk Design Center, where rosemary and lavender, hydrangea and lemon balm trailed up the glass _________ to all six floors. In 2009, I planted "Philosophers Garden," a garden mural, blooming at the historic Frederick Douglass High ______ in Memphis, _________. This school’s garden fed an entire community and was honored by Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Again, in 2011, I planted at Court Square Park — six entry gardens with 80 varieties of deliciously fragrant floribunda and hybrid tea _____.

Solution


  1. school
  2. elevators
  3. lining
  4. countries
  5. cooked
  6. conversation
  7. planted
  8. carrots
  9. colors
  10. baked
  11. healed
  12. garden
  13. roses
  14. roots
  15. tennessee

Original Text


My mother cooked with the colors and textures of her garden. She baked yams and squash and heirloom tomatoes and carrots. She fed love to a generation of people with purple hull peas and greens. It seems that during my childhood, the blooms from my mother's gardens have healed all the way from her halo to the roots on the soles of our feet. In our last conversation before her death, she encouraged me to go anywhere in the world that would make me happy.

Since then, I have planted her gardens through art installations throughout the world, in countries of the people that I meet. Now they are lining parks and courtyards, painted on walls and even in blighted lots off the street. If you were in Berlin, Germany, you would have seen my garden at Stilwerk Design Center, where rosemary and lavender, hydrangea and lemon balm trailed up the glass elevators to all six floors. In 2009, I planted "Philosophers Garden," a garden mural, blooming at the historic Frederick Douglass High School in Memphis, Tennessee. This school’s garden fed an entire community and was honored by Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Again, in 2011, I planted at Court Square Park — six entry gardens with 80 varieties of deliciously fragrant floribunda and hybrid tea roses.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations




Important Words


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  8. carrots
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  12. community
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  31. floribunda
  32. fragrant
  33. frederick
  34. garden
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  36. generation
  37. germany
  38. glass
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  40. greens
  41. halo
  42. happy
  43. healed
  44. heirloom
  45. high
  46. historic
  47. honored
  48. hull
  49. hybrid
  50. hydrangea
  51. installations
  52. lavender
  53. lemon
  54. lining
  55. lots
  56. love
  57. meet
  58. memphis
  59. mother
  60. mural
  61. painted
  62. park
  63. parks
  64. peas
  65. people
  66. planted
  67. purple
  68. roosevelt
  69. roots
  70. rosemary
  71. roses
  72. school
  73. soles
  74. square
  75. squash
  76. stilwerk
  77. street
  78. tea
  79. tennessee
  80. textures
  81. tomatoes
  82. trailed
  83. varieties
  84. walls
  85. world
  86. yams