Posts Tagged ‘Eric Carle’
May 23, 2022 Carl Linnaeus, Thomas Hood, Georgiana Molloy, Louisa Yeomans King, The Less is More Garden by Susan Morrison, and Eric Carle
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 1707 Carl Linnaeus — Father of Taxonomy, whose Species Plantarum (1753) standardized binomials — also flipped Celsius’s scale, honored the Commelin brothers…
Read MoreEric Carle: The Garden of Color and Kindness (2021)
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 23, 2021 Eric Carle—the artist who taught children to count, to notice, to love a leaf—passed away, leaving a library of sunlight. From his most famous book: On Saturday, he ate through…
Read MoreThe Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of Watermelon. That night he had a stomach ache. — Eric Carle, American designer,…
Read MoreThe Poetry of Watermelon: Sweet Crimson, Summer Smiles, and Sun-Kissed Rinds
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. Watermelon in the garden. August 3, 2020 Today we celebrate National Watermelon Day—a perfect nod to summer’s juiciest delight. This fruit…
Read MoreCelebrating Children’s Author and Gardener Eric Carle
“Love your partner and tend your garden. Simplify, slow down, be kind.” June 25, 1929 On this day, the American illustrator and writer Eric Carle was born. Eric gave a commencement address at Bates College in 2007. He concluded with these words: Love your partner and tend your garden. Simplify, slow down, be kind. …
Read MoreJune 25, 2019 Empress Wu Hosta, David Douglas, William Robert Guilfoyle, Nathaniel Lord Britton, George Orwell, Gardener’s Latin by Bill Neal, Floral Pins, and Eric Carle
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue Did you know that the most popular giant hosta is Empress Wu? At maturity, the plant is 5 feet tall with an 8-foot spread. Pictures don’t…
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