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Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing, by Neltje Blanchan, Part 2

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Sharon Handy

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Let's sink into the fields of sleep with more from this lovely and informative book on the varied beauty of wildflowers. A few may smell of corpses, but they're no less wonders of nature!

 

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0:00.0

Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet The I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to some new members of our

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Patreon family Kate and John. Thank you both so much for supporting this

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podcast by becoming members of Thank you help us cover the cost of while keeping us relaxed and ad-free for everyone, and it's very much appreciated.

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including exclusive episodes heard nowhere else, you'll find a link to Patreon in the show description. You'll also find a link to buy me a coffee

1:06.9

dot com where you can support us with a one-time tip no subscription required I hope you'll take a moment to check them out. Now let's

1:20.3

read and relax.

1:26.5

Find a comfortable spot.

1:30.4

Adjust your volume.

1:35.0

Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly.

1:40.0

And off we go. Tonight, we're relaxing with more from a charming work about nature.

1:51.5

Wild flowers worth Knowing, adapted by Aisa Don Dickinson, from Nature's Garden by Nelchy Blanchin,

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first published in 1917.

2:07.0

Let's pick up right where we left off

2:10.0

with the flowers of the Lily family.

2:14.2

Let's begin.

2:17.4

Wild Spiconard

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Fall Solomon Seal or Solomon's zigzag, Smellusina Rassamosa. Flowers, white or greenish, small, slightly fragrant, in a densely flowered terminal raceme.

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Perrinth of six

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daimens, one pistol.

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stem, simple, somewhat angled, one to three feet high, scaly below, leafy and sometimes finely

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