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Hi, I'm Landon Wittsen and I host an episode of Who Is Amazing Life, a Wondory Podcast

for kids and families. In the plant doctor, you've always loved plants, but when you leave

home in search of new opportunities, you discover that your passion for bulbs and blooms can

help others, and maybe even change the world. Listen to the plant doctor and other incredible

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Summer Ringa Grove

Once upon a time in a sprawling stretch of sun's scorched savanna, long before humans had

spread across the earth, there was a terrible drought. The sun shone down merciless as a

lion on the hunt. It dried up all the water from the lakes and the ponds. It dried up the

water from the rivers and the streams. It even dried up the waters from the hidden pools

that came bubbling up through the savanna mud, leaving the ground hard and cracked and

oh, so very dry. The Acacia and Baubob trees withered and twisted and turned to kindling.

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