Posts Tagged ‘Margaret Atwood’
November 18, 2022 William Shenstone, Leo Lesquereux, Asa Gray, Margaret Atwood, We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich, and November Garden Work Inspires
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 1714 Birth of William Shenstone, English poet and landscape gardener. Shenstone turned his estate, The Leasowes, into one of the most celebrated…
Read MoreMargaret Atwood: The Poet Laureate of Earth and Leaf
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 18, 1939 On this day, the literary world welcomed a true force of nature – Margaret Atwood, a woman whose words would bloom as profusely and provocatively as the most audacious of…
Read MoreNovember 18, 2019 The National Trust Cover Photo, The Feminine History of Botany, William Shenstone, Leo Lesquereux, Asa Gray, Kim Wilde, Margaret Atwood, Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life by Marta McDowell, Boot Tray reboot and Cranberry Frenzy in 1843
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News The 15 best pictures from the National Trust’s photo competition to find a cover for its 2020 member handbook Les Lockhart’s photo of the Newtown…
Read MoreGardeners of the Soul: Proust, Atwood, and Thoreau on Earth and Immersion
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. An elevated pot at the end of a garden walk. November 18, 2019 On this day, the garden and the literary…
Read MoreGardening is Not a Rational Act
by Margaret Atwood Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. Note: Today is the…
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