Posts Tagged ‘Lilacs’
The Lilac Days of 1928: Hulda Klager’s Floral Phenomenon
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 2, 1928 On this day, a horticultural marvel unfolded as folks lined up to see the lilacs bloom at Hulda Klager’s place in Woodland, Washington. The air was thick with the intoxicating…
Read MoreMay 25, 2022 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Miss Amanda Palmer, George Orwell, The Ripley Garden, Potted History by Catherine Horwood, and Louisa Yeomans King
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 1803 Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet. After graduating from Harvard, Ralph decided to go by his…
Read MoreStevie Smith’s Garden Wisdom: The Dual Nature of Lilacs
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 20, 1902 My dearest garden enthusiasts, on this day we find ourselves contemplating the fascinating intersection of poetry and horticulture through the lens of one of England’s most distinctive voices. Today marks…
Read MoreMay 14, 2021 Sloping Garden Ideas, George Cooper, Charles Joseph Sauriol, Lilacs for Lincoln, Healing in the Garden, Nature into Art by Thomas Christopher and James Mease
Today we celebrate a happy lyricist and poet. We’ll also remember a charming diary entry from 1938 by a Canadian conservationist and naturalist. We’ll honor a poem by Walt Whitman that inspired a beautiful composition that premiered this day in 1946. We hear an excerpt about the healing power of the garden. We Grow That…
Read MoreLilacs Disquise Unsightly Clothes Line Posts
“I have seen a set of (clothesline] posts in a backyard entirely covered with living green-a luxuriant growth of Virginia creeper… The best permanent screen for unsightly objects Is a group of evergreens. A clump of lilacs costs less and begins to be effective sooner.” June 30, 1906 On this day, The Superior Times out…
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