Nathaniel Parker Willis Archives

Spare That Tree: George Pope Morris and the Birth of Literary Conservationism

George Pope Morris, 1836, by Henry Inman

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 10, 1802 On this day, dear readers and fellow admirers of literary landscapes, we celebrate the birth of a man whose words would grow to shelter us like the very trees he…

It is the Month of June

by Nathaniel Parker Willis It is the month of June, the month of leaves and roses. When pleasant sights salute the eyes, and pleasant scents the noses. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Nathaniel Parker Willis

June 3, 2019 Half-Hardy Plants, Aristides Simoni, David Douglas, Josephine Baker, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Kiftsgate Court Garden, Vanessa Berridge, Perennials for Wet Areas, Ardenoir, and Charlotte to Grace O’Brien

Half-Hardy Plants. That’s a term you don’t run into very often – but when you do, it can be confusing. Just this morning, I swung by a garden center to check out their clearance plants, and I ended up chatting with a gardener who had running to a label that had that term: Half-Hardy Plants.…