Eudora Welty Archives

Eudora Welty: Pulitzer Prize Laureate and Gardener of the Southern Soul

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 13, 1909 Dearest reader, On this day in 1909, Eudora Alice Welty was born, destined to become one of the South’s most beloved writers and photographers. She captured the essence of the…

October 1, 2021 Pollinating via Toothbrush, LeRoy Abrams, Eudora Welty, Glenn Leiper, Neil Gaiman, Wreaths by Terri Chandler, and Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Roses, Nematodes, and Literary Battles: Eudora Welty’s Garden of Stories

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 1, 1972 Dearest reader, On this day, The Tampa Tribune turned its discerning gaze toward the incomparable Eudora Welty, that Mississippi enchantress whose pen captured the humid pulse of Southern life with…

April 13, 2021 The Arts and Crafts Movement, Eudora Welty, Mary Strong Clemens, The Rush of Spring, Imperial Nature by Jim Endersby, and International Plant Appreciation Day

Eudora Welty: Cultivating Stories in Soil and Ink

Eudora Welty, a celebrated American author and photographer from the American South.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 13, 1909 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of a literary luminary whose words have blossomed like the most exquisite of garden flowers. I speak, of course, of the…

Now That’s Something – Discovering New Primroses

Primroses, specifically likely a variety of Primula vulgaris, also known as the English primrose.

by Eudora Welty Few things are riskier than ‘fine writing,’ but Miss Welty has never been afraid to risk it. She spoke once in a conversation about plant explorers who go to Nepal and Sikkim, risking their lives to introduce Alpine flowers to gardens. ‘Now that’s something – discovering new primroses – that’s worth taking…

October’s Homeward Signs, Cut Flowers, and Primrose Discoveries

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. An October bouquet. October 1, 2019 October, ever the philosopher among months, calls us home — not simply to hearth and…