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Mary Delany
Paper Mosaics May 17, 1700 Today is the birthday of the botanical tissue paper decoupage artist Mary Delany. Mary Delany led an extraordinary life. When she was 17, her family had forced her to marry a sixty-year-old man. Mary soon discovered he was an alcoholic. To make matters worse, when he died, Mary’s husband forgot…
Read MoreMay 17, 2021 Mary Delany, Lord Byron, Dennis Potter, The Mitten Tree, On Harper’s Trail by by Elizabeth Findley Shores, and the First Color Photograph
Today we celebrate a woman who became a renowned floral artist late in life. We’ll also learn about an English poet and politician who loved nature. We’ll recognize some of the final sentiments about the wonder of nature from a television dramatist, screenwriter, and journalist. We hear an adorable excerpt about growing a mitten tree.…
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Fate Brings Fortune On this day, the botanical tissue paper decoupage artist Mary Delany wrote to her sister about her garden. Mary Delany had an extraordinary life. Her family had forced her to marry a sixty-year-old man when she was 17. He was an alcoholic. To make matters worse, when he died, he forgot to…
Read MoreJuly 19, 2020 Ann-Marie Powell’s Lockdown Garden, Mary Delany, Caroline Dormon, Leslie Coulson, John Macoun, Keeping July by Joanna O’Sullivan, Garden to Table by the Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen, and Robert Fenton
Today we celebrate the decoupage botanical artist that left her mark on botanical history. We’ll also learn about a Louisiana botanist, naturalist, and author who lived in a home called Briarwood. We salute the English poet who was killed in WWI – he appreciated the pure beauty of flowers. We also recognize one of Canada’s…
Read MoreFebruary 11, 2020 Penelope Hobhouse, Fertilizer Numbers, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, William Shenstone, Charles Daubeny, Winter Poems, A Botanist’s Vocabulary by Susan K. Pell and Bobbi Angell, Jute Twine, and February Folklore
Today we celebrate a woman who was once the wealthiest woman in England, and she happily spent a fortune on plants. We also celebrate the man who transformed his family farm into a glorious garden. And, we’ll learn about the Oxford professor who is remembered by a flower known as the “Jewel of the Desert.”…
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The Botanical Decoupage Artist It’s the birthday of Mary Delany Born today in 1700. Mary Delany lead an extraordinary life. The family had forced her to marry a very old man when she was 17. He was an alcoholic. To make matters worse, when he died, he forgot to include her in his will. Despite…
Read MoreMay 14, 2019 Garden Experts, Mary Delany, Edward Jenner, John Cushnie, Hal Borland, Ruth Hayden, Slowing Growth in Shade, and the Mayapple
Most gardeners share a common secret: they never feel like they know enough about gardening to call themselves an expert. If you feel this way after years of gardening, you’re not alone. Over two centuries ago, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to his friend, the painter Charles Wilson Peale. He’s lamenting the limitations of his…
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