A Most Unseasonable Shell: The Day Turtle Hail Fell
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast:
May 11, 1894
Bovina, Mississippi, reported “turtle hail”—a gopher turtle, six by eight inches, said to have fallen encased in ice during a violent storm. The tale sits somewhere between meteorology and myth, as many of our best garden stories do.
A gopher turtle
