April 9, 2019 Phebe Lankester, James Sowerby, Joseph Trimble Rothrock, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, Gardeners Question Time, Charles Baudelaire, Katie Daisy, the Toronto Archives, and Joseph Sauriol

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Today’s thought is precisely that: How we think when we garden. Emerson wrote: Blame me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Comes back laden with a thought. How wonderful our gardens are for thinking. Creatively. Therapeutically. Soulfully. Every bloom can be a vessel for an idea, a…

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A Book is a Garden

A Book is a Garden

by Charles Baudelaire A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.       Note: Today is the birthday of Charles Baudelaire, the French poet, who was born on this day in 1821. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired…

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