Posts Tagged ‘Alexandre Dumas’
July 27, 2022 Thomas Campbell, Alexandre Dumas, Martha Ballard, Louisa Yeomans King, All about Flowers by Thomas Mickey, and Edith Patch
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1777 Birth of Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet. He founded and served as the first President of the Clarence Club. He was also…
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Larger-Than-Life Author Today is the birthday of French author of “The Three Musketeers” and gourmet Alexandre Dumas (” Doo-Ma”). Alexandre also wrote the Count of Monte Cristo, which contains many passages about the garden. Here’s one for Chapter 44: “The garden was long and narrow; a stretch of smooth turf extended down the middle, and…
Read MoreJuly 24, 2020 Moss by Robert Miller, Benning Wentworth, Henry Shaw, Alexandre Dumas, Pigeon Peas, Chasing Eden by Jack Staub and Renny Reynolds, and the Dial-A-Garden-Tipline
Today we remember the man who brought Lilacs to America. We’ll also learn about the man who created the Missouri Botanical Gardens, also known as “Shaw’s Garden.” We celebrate the French author, who exchanged his personal library for a lifetime supply of cantaloupe. We also look back at an article from 1938 and the topic…
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