Posts Tagged ‘Apple Trees’
How to Wassail Apple Trees on the 12th Night of Christmas
“Wassail means “good health,” by wassailing the apple trees, you wish for good tree health, fertility, and productivity.” In England, tonight, there’s an ancient custom – an old pagan ritual – that involves waking up the apple cider trees with wassailing on the 12th night of Christmas. The written folklore around wassailing says that if…
Read MoreAfter Apple Picking: Robert Frost’s dreamy farewell to harvest and waking life
by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill Beside it, and there maybe two or three Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of…
Read MoreOctober 3rd Reflections: Foxgloves, Apple Trees, and Philosophy of Plants
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Foxgloves blooming with Apple Trees in the background. From the Poetical Birthday Book for October 3, 1887 Today’s selections drift like…
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