Posts Tagged ‘Connecticut gardens’
Eleanor Perenyi: The Wit and Wisdom of a Garden Sage
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. January 4, 1918 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, we celebrate the birth of a true horticultural wit, the inimitable Eleanor Perenyi. This American writer and gardener, who left us in 2009 at…
Read MoreWallace Stevens: The Poet Who Found Beauty in Elizabeth Park
Artificial Flowers Today is the anniversary of the death of poet Wallace Stevens Stevens said, “Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.” Stevens was one of the most skilled poets of the 20th Century. He lived his entire adult life near Elizabeth…
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