Posts Tagged ‘Meta Orred’
William Withering’s Foxglove Legacy: From Poison to Panacea
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 6, 1799 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, we bid farewell to a luminary in the world of botany and medicine. William Withering, that most accomplished English botanist, geologist, physician, and chemist,…
Read MoreOctober 3, 2019 Pumpkin Allergy, Luis Née, Frederick Lueders, Frederick Pursch, David Hosack, John Torrey, Charles Sprague Sargent, Meta Orred, Sergei Yesenin, Philippa Foot, Montrose by Nancy Goodwin, Christmas Cactus, and George Dexter Butler
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 1807 Luís Née, a French botanist working in Spain, died on this day. He is remembered for his South American explorations and…
Read MoreHer Lips Like Foxgloves, Pink and Pale
by Meta Orred Her lips like foxgloves, pink and pale, Went sighing like an autumn gale; Yet, When the sunlight passed by, They opened out with half a sigh. Her smile, the last faint vesper light As swoons the eve to sleep away, Remaining through the summer night A lamp of love by which to…
Read MoreOctober 3rd Reflections: Foxgloves, Apple Trees, and Philosophy of Plants
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. Foxgloves blooming with Apple Trees in the background. From the Poetical Birthday Book for October 3, 1887 Today’s selections drift like…
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