Edna St. Vincent Millay Archives

Favorite Poems for the Garden by Bushel & Peck Books

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Favorite Poems for the Garden by Bushel & Peck Books This charming hardcover book, released in April 2022, is a veritable bouquet of pastoral poems that…

February 22, 2022 Pehr Loefling, William Barnes, Adolph G. Rosengarten, Phyllis Theroux, The Flower Hunter by Lucy Hunter, and Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Daily Gardener Podcast Album Cover with a pot of rosemary - the herb for remembrance - beckoning gardeners to remember to listen to the show. Updated September 2025.

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1756 Birth of the handsome and tall Swedish botanist, Pehr Loefling. A beloved pupil of Carl Linnaeus, Pehr was nicknamed “the Vulture”…

Edna St. Vincent Millay: The Poet Who Blossomed Among the Flowers

Edna St. Vincent Millay with Magnolia in spring photographed by Arnold Genthe in 1914 in Mamaroneck, New York.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 22, 1892 Dearest Gardeners, Today we celebrate the birth of Edna St. Vincent Millay (books by this author), that American lyrical poet and playwright whose verses have become as cherished as the very…

Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Controversial Jimsonweed: Poetry Meets Botany

A black and white portrait photograph of American poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay. The photograph was taken by Arnold Genthe in 1914.

Clever Compositions February 22, 1892 Today is the birthday of the American lyrical poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay. Gardeners cherish Edna’s verses like: April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. I would blossom if I were a rose. I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a…

November 16, 2020 Denys Zirngiebel, Joseph Henry Maiden, Albert Francis Blakeslee, Donald Peattie, The Gardens of Bunny Mellon by Linda Jane Holden, and Elizabeth Fox

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 Revisiting Garden Dreams | The Daily Gardener Yes, I’d love to have a garden of my own — spacious and full of everything that is…

April Comes Like an Idiot

A close-up view of a scattered layer of soft, delicate pink rose petals.

by Edna St. Vincent Millay April comes like an idiot, babbling, and strewing flowers. Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. A close-up view of a scattered layer of soft, delicate pink rose petals.

April’s Fickle Blossoms: Poetic Musings on Spring’s Capricious Beauty

Spring crocus blooming in an April garden.

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. Spring crocus blooming in an April garden. April 2, 2020 April’s personality is lively, unpredictable, and vividly captured by the poet…