Posts Tagged ‘Hollyhocks’
A Banker’s Blooms: H. Howard Pepper’s 1905 Garden Confessions
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 24, 1905 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, we find ourselves transported to Providence, Rhode Island, where a banker named H. Howard Pepper penned a most illuminating letter to the magazine Country…
Read MoreAugust 2, 2020 How to Brighten Up the Garden with Hollyhocks, Thomas Gainsborough, Hawaii’s First Potato, John Bartram, Wallace Stevens, August Weather Folklore, How They Decorated by P. Gaye Tapp and Charlotte Moss, and Andrea Brunsendorf’s Container Recipe
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 Cheery Hollyhocks Brighten Up the Garden | Southern Living These vibrant, blooming stalks can reach heights of 8 feet. Here’s an excerpt: “In summer, we…
Read MoreSeeds Beneath a Waxing Moon: Vita Sackville-West’s Poetry of Foresight and Bloom
by Vita Sackville-West When skies are gentle, breezes bland. When loam that’s warm within the hand Falls friable between the tines. Sow hollyhocks and columbines. The tufted pansy, and the tall Snapdragon in the broken wall. Not for this summer, but for next. Since foresight is the gardener’s text. And though his eyes may never…
Read MoreGilbert White’s April Garden Journal: Cuckoos, Cucumbers, and Canterbury Bells
Five gallons of French brandy from London. Cucumbers show fruit in bloom. Cuculus cuculat: the voice of the cuckoo is heard in Blackmoor Woods. Sowed Hollyhocks, Columbines, Snapdragons, Stocks, Mignonette, all from S. Lambeth, in a bed in the garden. Also Sweet Williams, & Canterbury Bells. Note: On this day the Naturalist Gilbert…
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