Hi! My name is Ruby, and I just turned six years old! I love anything pink and purple, like candy, toys, and dresses, but, I especially love pink and purple flowers!

My next door neighbor, Mrs. Robinson, has the prettiest pink and purple flowers in the garden of her front yard.

Everyday when I walk to school, I walk past her garden which is filled with flowers of the most brightest colors.

I LOVE Mrs. Robinson's flowers, and I want to have flowers just as pretty as hers in the front yard of my house too!

So one day I came up with an idea...

On my way home from school, I decided to pick the prettiest rose I found from Mrs. Robinson's garden.

This flower was perfect. It had a tall and strong stem, bright green leaves on its sides, and petals so bright that they looked like they were painted on.

I couldn't wait to plant this flower in my very own garden.

As soon as I got home, I took my flower and buried it into a little pile of dirt in the front of my house.

This flower was going to grow so big and beautiful in my very own garden, and I couldn't wait for people to walk past my house and see it.

A few days went by, and my rose began to look worse and worse.

It started to look like it was falling over, or wilting, and the leaves and petals began to fall onto the ground.

This made me very, very upset.

The next day at school, I told my teacher, Ms. Murray, all about my dying flower. I asked her why this was happening.

I did everything right! I planted it into the dirt just like Mrs. Robinson did in her big, beautiful garden!

Ms. Murray told me that even though Mrs. Robinson's flowers were standing up in the dirt just like mine was, there was actually a few steps that Mrs. Robinson had to follow so that her flowers could grow so big. Also, after she planted them, she had to follow even more steps to take care of them too!

Ms.Murray told me that most plants grow from seeds. Seeds are very small and inside of them there is something called an embryo, which contains all the basic parts from which a young plant, or seedling, grows from.