Zucchini Blossoms & Soul Searching: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

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…

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From Bluebells to Winter Roses: The Life of Anne Brontë

Anne Bronte enhanced and (colorized) by Charlotte Bronte c. 1834.

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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