Posts Tagged ‘Love’
May 10, 2022 John Hope, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Francis Younghusband, Lemon, Love & Olive Oil by Mina Stone, and Polly Park
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 1725 John Hope, Scottish botanist, professor, and founder of the Royal Garden in Edinburgh, was born. Hope’s teaching inspired generations of medical…
Read MoreFour Favorite Garden-Inspired Verses About Love for Valentine’s Month
“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…
Read MoreWhen it Comes to Plants, Love Makes a Difference
“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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