Posts Tagged ‘Eleanor Perenyi’
November 06, 2024 Finding Hope in the November Garden, Alice Lounsberry, Frank Kingdon-Ward, Favorite Poems for the Garden by Bushel & Peck Books, and Martha Turnbull
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 1868 The botanist and garden writer Alice Lounsberry is born in New York City. 1885 The renowned British botanist and explorer Frank…
Read MoreEleanor 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 MoreJanuary 4, 2021 Invasive Garlic Mustard, Stephen Hales, Johanna Weterdijk, Eleanor Perenyi, Winter Garden Thoughts, A Life in Shadow by Stephen Bell, and Garden Trivia for National Trivia Day
Today we celebrate an English botanist who discovered which way sap flows in plants. We’ll also learn about a female Dutch botanist who fought for equity and is now remembered as a trailblazer. We’ll remember a thoughtful and witty garden writer whose only book became a garden classic. We hear some thoughts on the garden…
Read MoreGarden Failures
by Eleanor Perenyi It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn’t a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words…
Read MoreGreen Thoughts by Eleanor Perenyi
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Green Thoughts by Eleanor Perenyi This book came out in 2002, and the subtitle is A Writer in the Garden. Oh, my dear, have you ever stumbled upon a book that is as delightful as a secret garden, brimming with unexpected delights and a touch of the whimsical?…
Read MoreMay 30, 2019 Extra Garden Tools, Voltaire, Gustav Leopold Miller, the Brush Weeder, Bill Burt, National Mint Julep Day, Cicily Mary Barker, The Lilac Fairyx, Green Thoughts, Eleanor Perenyi, Perennial Vines, and Concealing Unsightly Clothesline Posts
Today I’m heading over at 1 o’clock to Walmart to pick up my mobile order. It has a ton of things I need to get for my student gardeners. When the kids help me out in the garden, I put them in teams of two, and I generally have 6 to 8 kids helping me…
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