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Edwin Way Teale
Nature is Shy The botanist Edwin Way Teale married Nelly Imogene Donovan. Edwin and Nelly met in college. After they married, they moved to New York so that Edwin could continue his education at Columbia University. Edwin’s first job was writing for the magazine Popular Science. On the side, Edwin began taking pictures and specializing in…
Read MoreAugust 1, 2020 The Largest Seed in the World, Richard Savage, Charles Henry Bass Breck, Edwin Way Teale, Franklyn Hugh Perring, August Poems, In Bloom by Ngoc Minh Ngo, and the Origin of Plant Names
Today we celebrate an English poet who didn’t want gardens to be monetized. We’ll also learn about the 8th generation seedsman of a beloved Boston company. We remember the naturalist who followed the seasons up and down the country. We also recognize the exuberant botanist, who created the Dot Map. We welcome the new month…
Read MoreThe Seasons Like Greater Tides
by Edwin Way Teale The seasons, like greater tides, ebb, and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the…
Read MoreOn the Roughest Days of Winter
Edwin Way Teale On the roughest days of winter, when life seems overwhelmed by storm and cold, watch a chickadee, observe in good cheer and take heart. Note: The American naturalist, Edwin Way Teale has given us some marvelous prose about birds and winter in his books: A Walk Through the Year, Circle of…
Read MoreBluebird Blue
Edwin Way Teale Bluebird blue….one of the loveliest manifestations of the color blue. Note: The American naturalist, Edwin Way Teale has given us some marvelous prose about birds and winter in his books: A Walk Through the Year, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist’s Year, and Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist’s…
Read MoreHow Strangely Inaccurate
by Edwin Way Teale How strangely inaccurate it is to measure the length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living. Note: The American naturalist Edwin Way Teale has given us some marvelous prose about birds and…
Read MoreThe Dead of Winter
Edwin Way Teale The “dead of winter” —– how much more dead it would be each year without the birds! Note: The American naturalist, Edwin Way Teale has given us some marvelous prose about birds and winter in his books: A Walk Through the Year, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist’s…
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The Thrill of Travel On this day in 1942, the Freeport Journal published a delightful story about the naturalist Edwin Way Teale. Here’s what it said, “To most of his neighbors Edwin Way Teale Is known as the man who can spend a solid day In a two-acre field without 1) being on a picnic,…
Read MoreOctober 22, 2019 A Garden-Themed Wedding, Forager Gin, Helen Clay Frick, Edwin Way Teale, Discovering Vanilla, David Douglas, Bliss Carman, The Sanctuary of My Garden by Fotoula Reynolds, Last Call for Houseplants, and 4th-Grade Botany
Today we celebrate the daughter of a millionaire who found solace in nature and the refreshing approach of one of the country’s top naturalists. We learn about the discovery of vanilla (complete with a ravishing recipe for vanilla coffee liqueur from 1974), and we’ll commemorate the Doctor’s Pit where the botanist David Douglas died. We’ll…
Read MoreEdwin Way Teale
Botanist to Author It was on this day in 1923 that the botanist Edwin Way Teale married Nelly Imogene Donovan. The two had met while Teale was at College. After they married, they moved to New York so that Teal could continue his education at Columbia University. Teale’s first job was writing for the magazine Popular…
Read MoreAugust 1, 2019 Gladiola, Edwin Way Teale, Franklyn Hugh Perring, Lord Byron, The Garden Chef, Repurposed Strawberry Jar, and Plants Named After People
Are you growing, Gladiola? The plants are also sometimes called the Sword Lily. Gladiola is Latin for a small sword. In Victorian times, the Gladiola meant, “You pierce my heart.” And the next time you see a Gladiola, take a closer look: Members of this family produce parts in multiples of three. There are three…
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