Posts Tagged ‘Pansies’
April 24, 2023 Jakob Böhme, Robert Bailey Thomas, Paul George Russell, Charles Sprague Sargent, Purple Mustard, Pansies, Kurume Azaleas, Tiny and Wild by Graham Laird Gardner, and Solar System Garden
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1575 Birth of Jakob Böhme, German original thinker. Jakob Böhme did a great deal of thinking and writing, not only about theology…
Read MoreMarch 10, 2021 Sowing Pansies and Violets, Laurence Binyon, John Torrey, a Florist’s Daughter’s Memoir, Flower Market by Michelle Mason and All Blue Potatoes
Today we celebrate an English poet whose words were sometimes inspired by gardens and now often mark memorials in gardens around the world. We’ll also learn about a man remembered for his Calendarian – it was kind of like a baby book for his plants. We hear an excerpt from a memoir about growing up…
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Early Blooms in Minnesota 1931 On this day newspapers were reporting a shocking headline from Brainerd, Minnesota: Pansies In Bloom: “A bed of pansies came into full bloom today in a farm garden near Brainerd, the center of a section famous for severe winters. Other February oddities: Lilac trees were budding. Girls were playing tennis.…
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