The Gardener’s Pen: Remembering Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Mary E. Wilkins at her home (colorized) and enhanced from the inside cover of The people of our neighborhood c. 1898.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 31, 1852 On this day, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, one of America’s most remarkable chroniclers of New England garden life, was born in Randolph, Massachusetts. ]Though primarily known for her fiction, Freeman’s…

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Phebe Ann Holder: Songs of May Blossoms and October’s Calm

Phebe A. Holder

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. Phebe A. Holder November 27, 2020 Today marks the birthday of Phebe Ann Holder, the New England poet born on this…

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