Posts Tagged ‘Minnie Aumonier’
A Forgotten Flower: Minnie Aumonier, Artist and Poet
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 2, 1865: Minnie Aumonier, English artist and poet, was born. Minnie was a woman of remarkable wit, passion, and creativity. Her work is a testament to the beauty of nature and the…
Read MoreJune 2, 2021 Thirty Days Wild, Thomas Hardy, Minnie Aumônier, Secret Gardens of Paris by Alexandra D’Arnoux and Bruno De Laubadere, Norton Juster, a Spelling Bee, and Botanical Latin
Today we celebrate an English novelist and poet who started out as an architecture student, and one of his first jobs was moving a graveyard. We’ll also learn about a writer of charming garden verses. And we’ll hear an excerpt about lilacs. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a look at some of the most…
Read MorePure as the Joy a Garden Gives
by Minnie Aumônier Pure as the joy a garden gives, the memory of a true friend lives. And like a garden, through the changing year is ever lovely, ever fresh and dear. Note: The artist and writer Minnie Aumônier (“oh·mo·nyé”) wrote some of the most beautiful verses about the garden…
Read MoreThe Old Year Passes into the New
by Minnie Aumônier The Old Year passes into the New, and gladness fills all the earth for the joyous awakening of bud and blossom is at hand. Note: The artist and writer Minnie Aumônier (“oh·mo·nyé”) wrote some of the most beautiful verses about the garden and about ringing in the new…
Read MoreJanuary 2, 2020 Amy Martin Woodland Garden Design, Louis Benech Normandy Retreat, Saint Adelard, Carl Linnaeus, Franscisco Marin, JG Lemmon, Rhodora, Minnie Aumonier, Leaf Supply by Lauren Camilleri & Sophia Kaplan, Tin Organizer, and the Discovery of the Winter Home of the Monarch
Today we celebrate the Feast Day of a gardener Abbott and an important day in the life of the Father of Taxonomy. We’ll learn about the man who planted the first pineapple in Hawaii on this day in 1813 and the botanist who shared a train with a President during his honeymoon to the Santa…
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