Posts Tagged ‘George William Russell’
July 17, 2020 A Hot Tip for Hydrangeas, the B-Line Network for Pollinators, Charles Theodore Mohr, George William Russell, Arthur Koehler, Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, Dog Days Poetry, How to Make a Plant Love You by Summer Rayne Oakes, and Poppy Art at the Tower of London
Today we celebrate one of Alabama’s first botanists and the poet who went by the pseudonym AE. We’ll also learn about Wood Expert and xylotomist (“xy·lot·o·mist”) who solved the crime of the century. We celebrate one of the 20th century’s leading landscape architects. We also celebrate the Dog Days of summer through poetry. We Grow…
Read MoreGeorge William Russell: The Departed Poet Who Understood Gardeners’ Souls
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 17, 1935 On this day, dear readers, we bade adieu to a luminous soul. The poet George William Russell, known more intimately to the literary world as AE, has departed this earthly…
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