May 19, 2022 The Dark Day, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tulips, Ruskin Bond, The Modern Cottage Garden by Greg Loades, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Leo Tolstoy

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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 1780 The Dark Day dimmed New England by late morning—candles at lunch, animals to roost, prayers said—later recalled in Whittier’s verse and…

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Rilke and Lou Salomé in Tolstoy’s Garden (1899)

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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 19, 1899 Lou Andreas Salomé (books about this person) and Rainer Maria Rilke (books about this person) went to see Leo Tolstoy (books about this person), hoping for mentorship; what they found…

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