Posts Tagged ‘Jamaica Kincaid’
My Favorite Plant by Jamaica Kincaid
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. My Favorite Plant by Jamaica Kincaid This book came out in 1998, and the subtitle is Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love. In this…
Read MoreNovember 04, 2024 Last Call for Spring Bulbs, John Bradby Blake, William Rickatson Dykes, Harry Ferguson, My Favorite Plant by Jamaica Kincaid, and Saving Summer with a Windowsill Garden
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1745 The English botanist John Bradby Blake [BRAD-bee BLAKE] is born. Though he lived a tragically short life – dying at just…
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Dreams of Gardeners May 25, 1949 Today is the birthday of the Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Jamaica Kincaid born Elaine Potter Richardson. Jamaica Kincaid is a gardener and popular garden writer. Her book Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya offers many wonderful excerpts. And here, she discusses the dreams of gardeners – and how…
Read MoreMay 25, 2021 Strawberry Rocks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jamaica Kincaid, Weed Empathy, Plant Identification Terminology by James G. Harrison, and Theodore Roethke
Today we celebrate a man who changed his personal beliefs and life philosophy after studying nature. We’ll also learn about a woman who writes about her lifelong relationship with the garden. We hear an excerpt about the spring garden with a bit of empathy for what it is like to be a weed. We Grow…
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