Posts Tagged ‘resilience’
Everlasting Gardens: The Poet’s Song of Seasons – Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 17, 1864 Dearest Gardeners, On this day, we pause to honor the birth of Jane Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, a Canadian poet whose voice still rings with gentle wisdom across the years. Hailing…
Read MoreZucchini Blossoms & Soul Searching: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 16, 2006 Dearest Gardeners, On this day, the world was treated to a memoir that would become a legend—Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert (author of numerous books). In honest and captivating prose, Gilbert chronicled…
Read MoreFrom Bluebells to Winter Roses: The Life of Anne Brontë
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 28, 1849 Dear reader, on this day in history, we bid farewell to a literary gem, the English novelist and poet Anne Brontë. While we now celebrate the Brontë sisters for their…
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