Four Favorite Garden-Inspired Verses About Love for Valentine’s Month

Rose Arbor

“You came when most needed, my winter rose.” I thought I’d close the show today by getting you ready for Valentine’s Day with a few of my favorite garden-inspired verses about love.   Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum.  Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet.  Roses are Red,  Violets are Blue.  Poor Violet, violated…

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When it Comes to Plants, Love Makes a Difference

Love in the Garden

“Plants are tender as little children and suffer quickly from any irregularity of diet and habit. Above all, they must not be kept awake late at night by bright gaslights burning around them.” October 2, 1940 On this day, a little verse was published in The Phoenix Star. This sweet little quip was at the…

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