The Poet Naturalist

August Strindberg

by August Strindberg Linnaeus was, in reality, a poet who happened to become a naturalist. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. August Strindberg

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May 23, 2019 Growing as a Gardener, Carl Linnaeus, the Centigrade thermometer, Commelina genus, Sjupp the Raccoon, the Hamburg Hydra, Linnaea borealis or Twinflower, August Strindberg, Planting Cannas, Martin Hoffman, and Linnaeus’ Lapland Costume

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Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “But these young scholars… Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.” There is more to gardening than nomenclature, and more than nomenclature, there’s actually growing and knowing plants.       Brevities #OTD It’s the birthday of Carl Linnaeus born…

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