Posts Tagged ‘Diary’
Maurice Baring’s Flight of Fancy: Botanical Entries in a Pilot’s Diary
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: On April 25, 1917, Maurice Baring wrote about flying over the Fourth Army among some nature entries in his WWI diary. Ah, dear garden friend, marvel with me on the curious ways in which life intertwines, even amidst the most tumultuous of times. Consider,…
Read MoreA Diary Entry from English Gardener Henry Arthur Bright in Praise of Violets
“Hepaticas I have tried over and over again, and they always fail.” March 25, 1874 Today, the English merchant and author Henry Arthur Bright recorded an update about his spring garden in his popular diary-turned-book, A Year in a Lancashire Garden. Again, we have had frost and snow, and this time, it has done us…
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