Hi, my name is Harley and today we will be talking about Botany in the Kids Corner. Botany is the study of plants and is very simple and fun to do. It is like discovering new types of plants or even just like dissecting a flower. It is so cool and awesome! And also, there are lots of types of flowers and the most important part of a flower is the root hairs. The hairs are in the ground and they are part of the root and then take the role of sucking nutrients into the flowers. The leaves are the second most important part of the plant because they produce chlorophyll. The flowers are super important too because they take the role of producing seeds. They need to produce seeds so they can reproduce then new flowers grow. Fruits and vegetables are also plants. Vegetarians feed on mostly plants actually.
There is also a place in St Pete which is called Sunken Gardens and it started out as a lake but then a man named George Turner drained it out and planted a garden in it. I went on a field trip there with my school. It is absolutely the best. I saw exotic plants and animals including parrots and Japanese Koi fish and the blue ginger flower. It was the best!
I applied it to my life when one of my friends went out of town and I watered her plants for her. Plants suck up the water through their roots and they use it to make a special kind of sugar that they use to live. The reason I watered the plants for my friend is that friends do nice things for each other. If I didn’t water the plants, then when she got back the plants would be all shriveled up and dead.
We are kind of like plants. If God didn’t “water us”—die for us—then we would not have salvation. Only after accepting Jesus can we start to grow in our lives. Kind of like these plants are growing.
We learned a lot about Botany. I’ll see you next month in the Kids Corner. Goodbye!
Harley Isabel Smith is a 1st grader who has been featured on TV as a philanthropist, has a heart for evangelism, and writes monthly for the Gazette’s Kid’s Corner.
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