Posts Tagged ‘May Day’
May 1, 2023 May Day, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Phebe Holder, Thomas Hoy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily’s Fresh Kitchen by Emily Maxson, and Calvin Fletcher
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 1772 Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, German botanist, is born. 1890 Phebe Holder’s poem, A Song of May, appeared in newspapers this month.…
Read MoreGarden Books Published on May Day Through the Years
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Well, it turns out that May 1st is a great day to release a brand new gardening book, and so I thought I’d wrap up today’s botanical history with three great garden books released on May 1st. 2001 The Himalayan Garden: Growing Plants from…
Read MoreThe Patience of Spring: Lessons from Emerson’s May Day
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 1, 1867 On this day, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the sage of Concord, inscribed a copy of his book, May Day, to Sophie Thoreau, the devoted sister of Henry David Thoreau. This gesture,…
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