Posts Tagged ‘Cicely Mary Barker’
Welcome February with Cicely Mary Barker: the Fair Maids of February and the Snowdrop Fairy
“Cicely would draw the flowers and the fairies and then write poetry about them.” The English illustrator Cicely Mary Barker is remembered for depicting fairies and flowers. In Cicely’s fabulous fantasy world, every flower was granted its particular fairy to protect it from harm. For winter, Cicely created fairies and poems for these plants: Snowdrop,…
Read MoreFebruary 2, 2021 Ideas For Your Garden, The Nature Principle at Home, How to Propagate 375 Plants by Richard Rosenfeld, and February’s Snowdrop Fairy
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 5 Tips to Help Your Garden Now | Fine Gardening Botanical History On This Day 1914 Film debut of iconic English actor and filmmaker Charlie…
Read MoreDeep Sleeps the Winter
by Cicely Mary Barker Deep sleeps the winter, Cold, wet, and grey; Surely all the world is dead; Spring is far away. Wait! the world shall waken; It is not dead, for lo, The Fair Maids of February Stand in the snow! Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired by the garden…
Read MoreFebruary’s Quiet Grace: Poetic Voices on the Year’s Shortest Month
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 February winter garden. February 12, 2020 February carries a subtle magic, a brief but potent interlude between the depths of…
Read MoreJune 28, 2019 Giant Flowers for Paul Bunyan Day, Harry V. Harlan, Importing Seeds, Henry Nehrling, Cicely Mary Barker, Plant Families by Ross Bayton, Pruning Spring-Flowering Shrubs, and the Effects of Culture
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue Today is National Paul Bunyan Day. In Minnesota, most folks fondly remember the tales of Paul and Babe – his big blue ox. Speaking of big,…
Read MoreI Have Never Seen a Fairy
by Cicily Mary Barker I have drawn all the plants and flowers carefully, from real ones, but I have never seen a fairy… Note: Barker loved wildflowers, but she didn’t believe in fairies. Barker wrote the quote above in the foreword to Flower Fairies of the Wayside. Today’s Garden words were featured on…
Read MoreWhite Clover Fairy
by Cicily Mary Barker I’m little White Clover, kind and clean; Look at my threefold leaves so green; Hark to the buzzing of hungry bees: “Give us your honey, Clover, please!” Yes, little bees, and welcome, too! My honey is good, and meant for you! Note: Barker loved wildflowers, but she didn’t believe…
Read MoreForget-Me-Not Fairy
by Cicily Mary Barker So small, so blue, in grassy places My flowers raise Their tiny faces. By streams, my bigger sisters grow, And smile in gardens, In a row. I’ve never seen a garden plot; But though I’m small Forget me not! Note: Barker loved wildflowers, but she didn’t believe in…
Read MoreCicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies: Poetry, Wildflowers, and the Magic of Gardens
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. Cicely Mary Barker June 28, 1895 On this day, we celebrate the birth of Cicely Mary Barker — the beloved English…
Read MoreCicely Mary Barker’s “The Lilac Fairy”: A Maytime Song of Beauty and Scent
by Cicily Mary Barker White May is flowering, Red May beside Laburnum is showering Gold far and wide; But I sing of Lilac, The dearly-loved Lilac, Lilac, in Maytime A joy and a pride! I love her so much That I never can tell If she’s sweeter to look at, Or sweeter to smell. Today’s…
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