Posts Tagged ‘Charles MacKay’
April 27, 2022 Charles MacKay, Alice Morse Earle, Thomas Dolliver Church, Cecil Day-Lewis, The Food Forest Handbook by Darrell Frey and Michelle Czolba, Edwin George Morgan,
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Podchaser Leave a Review Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1814 Charles MacKay, Scottish poet and songwriter, was born; he wrote tender lines in…
Read MoreWelcome February with The Language of the Trees by Scottish Poet Charles MacKay
“This little obscure poem from the Scottish poet Charles MacKay seems an excellent way to usher in February.” We’re in the grips of winter now, and the trees dominate the landscape. I thought I’d close today’s show with a little poem about trees that I stumbled upon while doing tree research. We’re learning more and…
Read MoreFebruary 1, 2021 Why Deadwood Should Be Removed, Langston Hughes, Ben Hur Lampman, How to Start a Garden, Botanicum by Kathy Willis, and the Language of Trees
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Removing Deadwood Makes For Happier, Healthier Shrubs And Trees — Here’s How To Know If Branches Are Still Alive | The Chicago Tribune | Beth…
Read MoreMeadow-Sweet
by Charles MacKay Rose! We love thee for thy splendor, Lily! For thy queenly grace! Violet! For thy lowly merit, Peeping from thy shady place! But mine airy, woodland fairy, Scattering odors at thy feet, No one knows thy modest beauty, No one loves thee, Meadow-Sweet! Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words…
Read MoreSongs of the Meadow-Sweet: Wordsworth, Rossetti, and Poets of the Wildflower Fields
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. A meadow of wildflowers in spring. July 4, 2020 Today is National Meadows Day in the United Kingdom, that soft, fragrant…
Read MoreJuly 8, 2019 Herb Societies, Forrest Shreve, Eva Reed, Leonard Cockayne, Monty Don, National Meadows Day, Charles MacKay, Janice Emily Bowers, Stop Fertilizing, and Milk Sickness
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue Have you checked whether there is an herb society near you? Herb societies offer gardeners what I call a next-level understanding of plants. Aside from parsley,…
Read MoreCharles MacKay’s “Meadow-Sweet”: A Tribute to England’s Wildflower Fairy
by Charles MacKay Rose! We love thee for thy splendor, Lily! For thy queenly grace! Violet! For thy lowly merit, Peeping from thy shady place! But mine airy, woodland fairy, Scattering odors at thy feet, No one knows thy modest beauty, No one loves thee, Meadow-Sweet! Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words…
Read More