A Poet’s Garden: Celebrating John Keats’ Natural World Legacy

John Keats by William Hilton

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 31, 1795 On this day, John Keats was born into a world he would later capture through some of the most vivid botanical imagery in English poetry. Though his life was tragically…

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Birch Trees and Mushroom Rain: The Natural World of Sergei Yesenin

Sergei Yesenin, portrait

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 3, 1895 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of a poet whose words became the very heartbeat of Russia. Sergei Yesenin, that lyrical genius, entered the world, destined to…

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