Posts Tagged ‘Garden Metaphor’
February 12, 2026 William Mason, Emily Lawless, Frank Lloyd Wright and Jens Jensen, The Beauty of the Flower by Stephen A. Harris, and Revising the Garden
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today’s Show Notes February can feel like a month made of drafts. Nothing finished. Nothing resolved. And that’s not a flaw. It can be a good…
Read MoreEdgar Albert Guest: The People’s Poet and Garden Dreamer
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 20, 1881 Dearest readers, On this day, we gather to honor the birth of Edgar Albert Guest, a British-born American poet whose verses became a heartfelt hymn to everyday joys, sorrows, and…
Read MoreNothing Grows but Washing and Babies: Dylan Thomas’s Wry Garden Reflection
by Dylan Thomas Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. Notes: The Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas, died on this day in 1953 at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. He had consumed 18 straight martinis. Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired by the garden…
Read MoreBartlett Giamatti on the Seasons: The Beautiful, Heartbreaking Cycle
by A. Bartlett Giamatti It’s designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. Today’s Garden words were…
Read MoreW.H. Auden’s “Their Lonely Betters”: The Garden’s Voices Beyond Words
by W.H. Auden As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made. It seemed to me that only proper Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. A robin with no Christian name ran through The Robin-Anthem which was all it knew, And rustling flowers from some third…
Read MoreElizabeth Cady Stanton’s Garden Metaphor on the Founding of the National Woman Suffrage Association
“Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.” May 15, 1869 On this day, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York. As part of…
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