The Gardener’s Pen: H. E. Bates and His Literary Landscape

Herbert Ernest Bates

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 26, 1905 On this day, the literary world welcomed Herbert Ernest Bates, a wordsmith destined to paint verdant landscapes with his pen. Known to readers as H. E. Bates, this English author…

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From Dystopia to Dahlias: George Orwell’s Secret Garden Life

George Orwell, 1940

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 25, 1939 On this day, George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, wrote that his hens had laid two hundred eggs in the previous two weeks. Who would have thought…

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