May 7, 2021 This Year’s Garden Trends, Gerard van Swieten, the Brontë Sisters, Kurt Vonnegut on Six Seasons, Inspired by Nature by Hans Blomquist, and Rabindranath Tagore

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Today we celebrate a Dutch botanist who helped advance the cause of medicine and botany in Austria. We’ll also learn about the Brontë sisters on the anniversary of their first published work. We hear an excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut on his thoughts on why there should really be six seasons. We Grow That Garden Library™…

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May 7, 2019 Deep Dives in the Garden, Gerard van Swieten, Rochester Parks Commission, RHS Radish Trial, Henry Teuscher, Bartram’s Garden, Rabindranath Tagore, Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden, Garden Trials, and Charles Darwin

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Gardeners love to fall in love with plants. We can fall so hard that we tune out other possibilities for our gardens. Then, in a fascinating twist, our deep dives can suddenly stop, and often, they are followed by a pivot. I started out like a shrub gardener. Then, I made a pivot to annuals…

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Speak to the Listening Heaven

Speak to the Listening Heaven

by Rabindranath Tagore Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.     Note: Today is the birthday of Rabindranath Tagore born on this day in 1861. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Rabindranath Tagore Black-Eyed Susan

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