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Today is the first day of Autumn, also referred to as the Autumn Equinox. Equinox means ‘equal night.’ On this day, both day and night are nearly the same lengths. Thereafter, the dark part of the year begins. Brevities #OTD Today is the birthday of the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kubla Khan, who was born on this day in 1215. Kubla Khan’s Summer Garden at Xanadu is the subject of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1797 poem Kubla Khan.…
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Folklore and legends are often intertwined with plants and gardens. Today I stumbled on a Swedish Legend called “The Harvest That Never Came,” and I thought you’d get a kick out of it. The story has been used in lesson plans to teach kids problem-solving. I’m going to abbreviate it a bit, but I’ll share a link to a good English translation in today’s show notes. A young man named Arild was the son of a Danish noble family. He…
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There’s are some lines from a TS Eliot poem that go like this : “Oh, do not ask, ‘What is it?’ Let us go and make our visit.” If you’ve never visited your local botanic garden this time of year, you really should go. I have a friend who recently did this, and she posted terrific pictures from her visit to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. She said this: “This is my PSA : Get yourself to the Arb ….now .…
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