plants

I used to hear doves singing outside where I grew up. But for some unexplained reason, I always believed that it was the clovers making that noise. I never understood how simple grass could make a noise like that!

crystal

when i was about 7 i read a book about these people who walked through a rhodedendren bushes (sorry if thats spelt wrong!!) and never came back out again because they found a different world in there. For years i was terrified of rhodedendren bushes thinking that i would be sucked into them and forced to live in another world!! i would like to meet the person who wrote that book!!

phoebe

When I was little I used to think that sunflowers would eat me.

Anon

I used to think that grass only grew during the time people were standing on it. How else could I understand the shoe-shaped tufty bits in the lawn at home?

Anon

When I was a kid someone told me that there was peanut butter in the blossom parts of clover. I believed them and was always trying to pull it apart to find the hidden peanut butter.

Anon

When I was little I thought that a "wallflower" was a kind of flower that grew on walls.

A. Nonny-Muss

while playing, we gals frequently used to hit our heads together accidentally.
I used to believe that it brings bad luck. so we do it again to give it a positive effect and run outdoors to watch for a coconut tree. such a wierd belief!!

raji

when i was little, at night time i used to be afraid of trees, i thought they were big fluffy monsters that were chasing me... in the car on trips id look out the window and see them, and think they were going to get me because there were so many, but i also kind of figured that they cant get me because we're moving..

charles

My mother used to tell me that if I didn't wash inside my ears, potatoes would grow in there. Of course, I didn't understand why, but it wasn't until I was into my teenage years before I questioned it, only to find it false. Potatoes don't grow in dirty ears.

Josh

I was about 4, and my family had just planted some seeds to make a small garden behind our house. My cousin of the same age explained one day that if we poured all of a nearby jug of gasoline onto the garden, all of the plants would turn out to be gigantic. We did just that, and later my parents were pretty confused when NOTHING sprouted from our garden.

Rob Harper

When I was younger, we were traveling to visit my grandmother. I saw some low hanging clouds and asked my mother "What's that?" She thought I was looking at the rice fields so she said "Rice." From that day on, I thought rice came from low hanging clouds. I used to wonder how they got the rice in bags when it would fall so freely from the sky. Well, I believed that through all my geography classes and when teachers said rice was grown in fields, I would just say to myself, "Humph, yeah, right. I know it comes from clouds." I thought that for a LONG, LONG time...I dare not say when I learned differently.

Jazi

the curly parts of grape vines were magical

Holly

In elementary school in the play field we had oak tree's. On these oak trees there we these sprays of needle like things that I was told that if you stare at them they will spit on you. To this day I still don't stare at those things...LOL

Michele

I was told that in order to make a toothpick, they had to chop down and use an entire tree. One tree = one toothpick. I couldn't figure out how anyone could be that wasteful.

Jeremy

When I was younger I either heard someone say or saw on tv that if you speak to plants it's good for them. So when I would walk home from school I would stop in front of my house and talk to our tree(mind you, the tree was probably done growing). I would tell him he was the best tree on the street and that he had the greenest leaves. When fall would come around and the trees would start to lose their leaves, I would root him on. I'd tell him he was the strongest and toughest tree, and not to give up his leaves yet. Like it was some sort of contest. Lucky for me it was a healthy tree or I would have had a lot more disappointment in my childhood. As a red sox fan, I think I'd had enough(until last year!)

conor

When I was about 5 or 6, an older kid at my Day Care told me that if I put a stick in the ground and stuck a leaf on it near the top, it would grow into a tree. I believed him, so everyday when we were out on the playground, I would take a stick, stick a leaf on top, and stick it in the mulch around the jungle gym..Then I would yell at anyone who even touched it "YOU'RE KILLING MY TREE!"

Amanda