Posts Tagged ‘Dylan Thomas’
November 9, 2020 Josiah Hoopes, Dmitry Ivanovsky, Alfred Austin, Dylan Thomas, Urban Garden Design by Kate Gould, and Carl Sagan
Today we celebrate a forgotten West Chester nurseryman and entrepreneur who pioneered the mail-order plant business. We’ll also learn about the Russian botanist who made a startling discovery from the sap of diseased tobacco plants. We salute the Welsh poet and writer who died on this day in 1953 after drinking 18 straight martinis. We…
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by Dylan Thomas Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. Notes: The Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas, died on this day in 1953 at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. He had consumed 18 straight martinis. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the…
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