Posts Tagged ‘Hal Borland’
December 16, 2020 Madagascar Vanilla, Marshall Pinckney Wilder, Albert Spear Hitchcock, David Hall, Hal Borland, The Catskills Farm to Table Cookbook by Courtney Wade and a Plant Called Higgenses
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News How Did Madagascar Become the World’s Biggest Producer of Vanilla? | Atlas Obscura | Dan Nosowitz Botanical History On This Day 1886 Marshall Pinckney Wilder,…
Read MoreDecember is a Blizzard in Wyoming
by Hal Borland December is a blizzard in Wyoming and a gale on the lakes, and the Berkshires frosted like a plate of cupcakes. It is bare trees and evergreens. It is wrestling weed stems and a gleam of partridgeberry on the hillside, a cluster of checkerberries, and winter greens in the thin woodland. It…
Read MoreNo Winter Lasts Forever
by Hal Borland No winter lasts forever; No spring skips its turn. Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. A branch of a spruce tree, specifically likely a species from the Picea genus, covered in snow and ice.
Read MoreWinter’s Wakefulness and the Bee’s Slumber: Reflections on Cold and Survival
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. Sluggish bees in the snow. February 19, 2020 Winter evokes a complex array of feelings, beautifully captured in the words of…
Read MoreThere are Two Seasonal Diversions
by Hal Borland There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogs. Note: Today’s Unearthed Words are all about seed catalogs. If you are a new gardener, welcome to the joy of curling up on the couch…
Read MoreDreaming in Seed Catalogs: Winter’s Greatest Temptation
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. Garden planning in cozy January. January 9, 2020 Today’s Unearthed Words are a love letter to every gardener’s guilty winter pleasure—the…
Read MoreNovember 12, 2019 Gardening Zodiac Signs, Stolen Compost, Australia’s Most Popular Indoor Plant, The Savill Garden Sculptures, Bougainville, Eschscholtz, Arthur Shurcliff, Orchids, Pedro Dot, Herbal Tea Gardens by Marietta Marshall Marcin, Forcing Bulbs, and Mavis Batey
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Cancer, Libra, Virgo: THESE Zodiac Signs love nature and find gardening therapeutic | @Pinkvilla Finally, a horoscope I find myself wholeheartedly agree with – Cancer,…
Read MoreAutumn’s Voices: Borland, Leopold, and Longfellow on Wind and Change
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 autumn landscape. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hal Borland Aldo Leopold, a renowned American author, philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist.…
Read MoreTwo Sounds of Autumn
by Hal Borland Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable: The hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street or road by a gusty wind, And the gabble of a flock of migrating geese. Both are warnings of chill days ahead, fireside, and topcoat weather. Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired…
Read MoreThe Golden Circle by Hal Borland
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: The Golden Circle by Hal Borland This book came out in 1977, and oh, my dears, what a delightful discovery I’ve made! A celestial calendar, if you will, painted in hues as vibrant as the heavens themselves. The Golden Circle, by the esteemed Hal Borland, is a treasure…
Read MoreMay 17, 2019 Ready to Garden, Botticelli, George Glenny, Requirements for Plant Explorers, Bernadette Cozart, Rocky Mountain Field Botany Course, Market Garden Workshop at Green Cauldron Farm, James Hunt, The Golden Circle, Hal Borland, and another Photo Friday in the Garden
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue Are you feeling it yet? The urge to get going in the garden? I was reading a book from 1915 about spring. It started this way:…
Read MoreMay 14, 2019 Garden Experts, Mary Delany, Edward Jenner, John Cushnie, Hal Borland, Ruth Hayden, Slowing Growth in Shade, and the Mayapple
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue Most gardeners share a common secret: they never feel like they know enough about gardening to call themselves an expert. If you feel this way after…
Read MoreThe Mayapple or Mandrake: Symbolism, Fruit, and Botanical History
“In a painful time of my life, I went often to a wooded hillside where Mayapples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me.” May 14, 1900 On this day, nature writer Harold Glenn Borland was born. While researching Hal Borland, I discovered what he…
Read MoreYou Fight Dandelions All Weekend
by Hal Borland You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon, there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity. Notes: Today is the birthday of Harold Glenn Borland, Born today In 1900.…
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