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books & blog to grow faith in your garden

at garden in Delight, we grow faith like a mustard seed

at garden in Delight, we grow faith like a mustard seed

and we grow mustard seeds!

And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden
genesis 2:8 RSV

Shelley’s Newest Book

My Father is the Gardener features devotional essays on gardening themes and plants of the Bible, beautifully crafted with original artwork, mesmerizing macrophotography, and classic botanical illustrations to bring you pleasing-to-the-eye pages that are sure to delight! Enjoy digging into the world’s oldest gardening book from a plant-lover’s point of view.

Tag along with the Lord in His gardening work—preparing the soil, planting, watering, cultivating, composting—and discover that gardening provides a logic and poetry essential to growing a deeper communion with God and His Word. Perfect gift for a gardener!

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In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.
James 1:21 The Message

About the Author

Shelley S. Cramm loves to see the ancient words of Scripture come alive in today’s gardens. She has published My Father is the Gardener, Devotions in Botany and Gardening of the Bible and God’s Word for Gardeners Bible, writes the Devotions Blog at www.gardenindelight.com, and speaks enthusiastically to garden clubs and faith groups about the connection of garden to table to Scripture to life.

Wife and mother of five, Shelley’s inspiration to write a gardener’s Bible grew out of a routine of morning journaling and an enduring hope to finish up the laundry and go outside and play! Transplanted Californians, Shelley and her husband Topher live and garden happily in Irving, Texas.

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sorghum volunteer in a summer garden

Say “So Long, Summer” with Sorghum

A sole sorghum plant in my garden has intrigued me with mystery over the last…

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Biblical Feasts, Garden DesignTag: ancient grains, barley, beans, days of awe, Ezekiel's bread, lentils, millet, sorghum, wheat, Yom Kippur, Yom Teruah

flowers of the field in Israel Ranunculus asiaticus

Fall Planning for Flowers of the Field

Even as the first stirrings of fall begin to freshen the days, we gardeners are…

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Garden DesignTag: anemone coronaria, crown anemone, flowers of the field, Papaver rhoeas, poppy, Ranunculus asiaticus, red spring, scarlet crowfoot, tulip, tulipa

crabapple tree catching sun's rays in Minneapolis

Where Can I Find Bible Plants in Minneapolis?

Bible plants in Minneapolis?! This northern city is at least 4 hardiness zones colder than…

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Gardens to VisitTag: castor bean, crab apple trees, cucumber, garlic, juniper, mint, rue, wormwood

Good Figs in Jeremiah 24

Have you had a summer fig harvest? There is nothing like feasting on these fascinating…

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Garden MomentsTag: fig, figs

beaming lilies in the Scripture Garden at Denver Botanic Gardens

Scripture Garden

Have your summer travels taken you to faraway gardens? I was excited to visit an…

Scripture GardenRead More

Gardens to VisitTag: apricot, calamus, cedar of Lebanon, fig, fig tree, grapevine, iris, lilies, nigella, olive, Olive tree, pomegranate, rue

cultivating calamus from 3"transplants, Acorus calamus known as sweet flag

Cultivating Calamus

Join me in a summer garden adventure on cultivating calamus. I have just ordered these…

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Garden DesignTag: aloes, calamus, myrrh, olive oile, reed, reeds, spices

American Roots by Allison and Nick McCullough and Teresa Woodard in greenery

American Roots Book Review

This week’s start of summer is usually a signal to start reading about gardening…because soaring…

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Book Review, Garden DesignTag: Boxwood, fig tree, madonna lily, Olive tree, willow

Sherman Gardens entrance in the busy confusion of the Pacific Coast Highway

A Visit to Sherman Gardens

Enjoy a special visit to Sherman Library and Gardens. Perched on the “PCH” (Pacific Coast…

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Gardens to VisitTag: Bitter Herbs, maidenhair fern, olive, public gardens, Sherman Gardens, walled gardens

garden wheat with arugula flowers

Preparing for Pentecost

The Feast of Weeks, also known as Shavuot and Pentecost, is celebrated this week, one…

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Biblical Feasts, Garden MomentsTag: pentecost, Shavuot, wheat

National Day of Prayer front porch flag

National Day of Prayer

Blessings to you on the National Day of Prayer! The NDP Task Force has united…

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Garden PrayersTag: Mustard, mustard seed, national day of prayer, prayer, star of Bethlehem

Where can wisdom be found? Not in this almond tree!

“Where Can Wisdom Be Found?”

“Where Can Wisdom Be Found?” crooned the psalmist, as The Passion Translation® relays in Psalm…

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Garden MomentsTag: almond tree, almonds, cucumber tendrils, cucumber vine

flax flowers in a home garden

Propagating & Flax and Myrtle

Propagating constantly captivates a gardener because integral with the beauty and bounty experienced in keeping…

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A Gardener's PromiseTag: flax, Lent, myrtle

apple and apricot trees provide a pruning mystery in God's Word

Pruning & Apple and Apricot Trees

The practice of pruning provides key understanding in the lives of God’s followers. God our…

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A Gardener's PromiseTag: apple tree, apples, apricot, apricot tree, apricots, grapevine, John 15, John 15:1, last supper, Lent

Artemisia 'Powis Castle' a perennial plant similar to wormwood of the Bible

Weeding & Wormwood

My Father is the Gardener explores weeding alongside ground covered by wormwood, a plant with…

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A Gardener's PromiseTag: artemisia, Lent, wormwood

cucmber vines on a trellis surrounded by leeks onions and garlic

Cultivating & Cucumbers, Leeks, Onions, and Garlic

Does the arrival of spring stir your heart for summer vegetables? The garden, perhaps more…

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A Gardener's PromiseTag: cucumber, cucumbers, garlic, Lent, Lent 2023, Numbers 11:5, onion, onions

papyrus well-watered by raindrops at San Antonio Botanical Garden

Watering & Papyrus and Hyssop

Women at the well, parched deserts, well-watered gardens, and many more references to water in…

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A Gardener's PromiseTag: hyssop, papyrus

crown anemones in a Texas garden border with a bee

Planting & Crown Anemones and Crocus

Deciding to plant a garden begins with a rush of decision-making followed by the muscle-moving…

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A Gardener's PromiseTag: autumn crocus, bees, crocus, crown anemone, crown anemones, flowers of the field, milk and honey, pollinators, saffron crocus, winter crocus

thistles and thorns in the Bible connect to the garden work of preparing the soil

Preparing the Soil & Thistles and Thorns

Preparing the soil is where garden dreams meet the ground, for a garden plant’s best…

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A Gardener's PromiseTag: Christ thorn, myrtle, notobasis syriaca, syrian thistle, thistles, Ziziphus spina-christi

olive and oak trees in the Bible teach us about choosing

Choosing & Olive and Oak Trees

The Lenten season began yesterday, February 22nd, and the Garden in Delight Devotions Blog responds…

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A Gardener's PromiseTag: Kermes oak, My Father is the Gardener, oak, oak tree, olive

olive tree lights help celebrate a happy old year

Happy Old Year 2022

Thank you, dear Gardeners, for another great year together! I am so glad we have…

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Year in ReviewTag: olive, olive oil

Christmas goodies fill a holiday plate, cookies from a neighborhood cookie exchange

Christmas Goodies

What is it about celebrating the birth of Jesus that urges us to give cookies,…

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Garden Recipes

Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom Song of Songs 7:12 NIV

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October
The Garden Question Podcast
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Guest on The Garden Question Podcast

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November
National Garden Bureau online
Thursday

Authors Talk Gardening Book Party

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November
GardenLine on WXTK @ iHeart Radio
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Interview on GardenLine with C.L. Fornari

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May
Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church
Friday

My Father’s Garden

Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church | 9800 Preston Road, Dallas, TX 75230
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My Father is the Gardener is the first of a four-book series by author Shelley S. Cramm, collaborating with BRIT Press, the publishing department of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT). Located at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, BRIT is an international scientific research and learning center, conducting scholarly research to discover, understand, and conserve plants and all life.

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Attention, all! See the marvels of God! He plants flowers and trees all over the earth
Psalm 46:8 The Message
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Ready for fall? It’s here in 2 days, yippee! But Ready for fall? It’s here in 2 days, yippee! But first check out my summer garden superstar, sorghum! This plant came to our garden as a sheer gift! Read all about it: www.gardenindelight.com/summer-sorghum/ or link in bio 🌾☀️💛👏🏼#ancientgrains #gardening #summergardening #gardentotable #ezekiel4 #myfatheristhegardener #godswordforgardeners #gardenindelight
I spy fall colors! 🍂🧡💛Fun meeting @brit_p I spy fall colors! 🍂🧡💛Fun meeting @brit_press today, followed by pretty flower beds! #gardening #gardeningbooks #almostautumn #readyforsweaters
We Remember 🇺🇸🙏🏽❤️🤍💙#septemb We Remember 🇺🇸🙏🏽❤️🤍💙#september11 #911 #unitedwestand #godblessamerica
Still a little too hot here😅, but how about you Still a little too hot here😅, but how about you? Has your garden started calling you to fall🍂which is really just a whispering of ‘Spring!’ 📣👩🏽‍🌾Fall is for planting spring bulbs, after all!🌷❤️🌷Find fresh ideas from the “flowers of the field,” the wildflowers of the Holy Land to grow in your home garden, with links to suppliers like @brentandbeckys  @colorblends and @reneesgardenseeds www.gardenindelight.com/fall-planning-for-flowers-of-the-field or link in bio #fallgardening #springbulbs #flowersofthefield #biblegardens #growyourfaith #flowergardens #redspring #holyland #crownanemones #tulips #ranuculus #poppies #matthew6 #psalm103 #psalm37 #luke12 #isaiah40 #godswordforgardeners #myfatheristhegardener #gardenindelight
Do you see it? The lowly hyssop is telling us abou Do you see it? The lowly hyssop is telling us about the times of refreshing on their way! 💦Tired, weary, dried out branches, from long weeks in summer’s heat, are giving way to new growth coming up like a bubbling spring…what a testimony this little plant gives! Isaiah doesn’t mention hyssop, but his many poetic words about thirsty ground, renewal, and rejoicing make me think he knew this herb well. Learn more about #hyssop in a chapter on watering in my book #myfatheristhegardener 👨🏽‍🌾📗🌱and PS happy dove season🕊️ drawing by @laylalunastudio 💛🎨👏🏼#godswordforgardeners #bibleplants #faithgardens #acts3 #timesofrefreshing  #isaiah35 #thirstygroundbubblingsprings #herbs #summergardening #gardenindelight
Crabapples, wormwood, papyrus, and more! See the B Crabapples, wormwood, papyrus, and more! See the Bible plants I spied in Minneapolis in today’s blog - how many of these will surprise you?! Special views from @mn_arb  @tangletowngardens @seedtofork and more! www.gardenindelight.com/bible-plants-in-minneapolis/or link in bio 🌳🍎📖🧅🍃@gardencomm_gci what a wonderful visit you organized! #bibleplants #growthegoodbook #gardening #prayergarden #crabapples #wormwood #papyrus  #myfatheristhegardener #gardenindelight #godswordforgardeners
More from Minneapolis! @gardencomm_gci took us to More from Minneapolis! @gardencomm_gci  took us to the most heavenly #gardenshop @tangletowngardens 👩🏽‍🌾🪴👏🏼 thank you for a great start to our garden tour day and for sending us on our way with cookies 😍 of course the #bibleplants were my favorites…it’s so much easier to read the Bible when you’ve planted it first! #alliums #leeks #onions #garlic #rue #fennel #wormwood  #grapevine #papyrus #biblegardens #gardenindelight #myfatheristhegardener plus more in my blog later this week 📝🌲🧅
Extra, extra, read all about it! My Summer Newslet Extra, extra, read all about it! My Summer Newsletter is out, here to inspire your end-of-summer garden 📰🍃👩🏽‍🌾🙏🏽Catch up on garden field trips, garden reading, and see a butterfly garden in the making! Link in Bio  #summergardening #learnalessonfromafigtree #luke21 #gardentravels #gardenprayers #butterflygardens
Thank you @baileynurseries and @firsteditionsshrub Thank you @baileynurseries and @firsteditionsshrubstrees for this beautiful takeaway from the visit to your garden in Minneapolis last week! @gardencomm_gci plantable party favors are the best😃👩🏽‍🌾👏🏼 Now here’s hoping this sheltered spot under our fig tree will help this beauty survive and thrive in our Texas heat😅 What I love about this shrub is its deep purple leaves, so it should be at home under the fig tree, a Biblical tree notorious for its leaves🌿#biblehumor #eclipsedbyglory #gardening #gardencomm #gardencommunity #shrubs #foliage #leaves #lovepurple #gardenindelight
My virtual postcard to you from my #mississippiriv My virtual postcard to you from my #mississippiriver mornings in #minneapolis 😍🩵🌊🎶I knew @gardencomm_gci would take us to amazing gardens, but it was a special gift to be so close to America’s mighty river for a morning #prayerrun 🏃🏽‍♀️🙏🏽 I am especially delighted by this river because it was on its banks in Memphis over 32 years ago that Topher Cramm asked and I was so happy to say Yes! #thankyoujesus 💍😍 “After all, grace is best defined as getting what we do not deserve...God is rich in grace and showers us daily with blessings we do not deserve.” O.S. Harkins, The Promise Code📖Yes, the bike with its amazing graffiti just happened to be parked on the other side of the river, wow🚲🩵👏🏼 #stanthonyfalls #fatherhennepin #gardencommUnity #myfatheristhegardener #gardentravel #psalm98
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