Nora Perry Archives

May 13, 2022 Mary Russell Mitford, Nora Perry, Enid Annenberg Haupt, William Bartram, The Multifarious Mr. Banks by Toby Musgrave, and Daphne du Maurier

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 1815 On this day, Mary Russell Mitford wrote about the changing times in a letter to her friend, Sir William Elford, English…

Verses of Vernal Promise: Nora Perry’s Springtime Poetry

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 13, 1896 On this day, dear readers, we bid farewell to Nora Perry, an American poet, newspaper correspondent, and writer whose verses captured the essence of spring’s awakening. Though she has left…

In June

by Nora Perry So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see; So blithe and gay the hummingbird a-going From flower to flower, a-hunting with the bee. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Nora…