My Favorite Plant by 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…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Spring: The Great Annual Miracle

A European robin with an orange breast perched on a thin branch, surrounded by soft pink spring blossoms and a pastel background.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the spring! —the great annual miracle…. which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If spring came but once in a century, instead of once…

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