Posts Tagged ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’
Bed in Summer
by Robert Louis Stevenson In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people’s feet Still going past me…
Read MoreThe Gardener Does Not Love To Talk
by Robert Louis Stevenson The gardener does not love to talk. He makes me keep the gravel walk; And when he puts his tools away. He locks the door and takes the key. He digs the flowers, green, red, and blue. Nor wishes to be spoken to. He digs the flowers and cuts the hay. …
Read MoreRobert Louis Stevenson
Garden of Verses Today is the birthday of Scottish-born writer and poet Robert Louis Stevenson, who was born on this day in 1850. Stevenson sickly little boy with no brothers or sisters. When he was just a toddler, a woman named Alison Cunningham was brought into the Stevenson home to help care for Robert. When…
Read MoreNovember 13, 2019 Coleus Cuttings, Air Plants, Make a Christmas Seedhead Wreath, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frederick Lueders, Chrysanthemum Show, Howard Scott Gentry, Square Foot Gardening 3rd Edition, Houseplant Spa Day, and Bedding Plants as Wealth Indicators
Today we celebrate the writer who dedicated his book called A Child’s Garden of Verses to his childhood nurse and the German botanist who lost all of his work in the Columbia River. We’ll learn about the big chrysanthemum show of 1916 in our Nation’s capital and the botanist who was one with Agaves. We’ll…
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2019 How to Help Autumn Crocus Shine, Sarah Hynes, Faith Fyles, Helia Bravo Hollis, WS Merwin, Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, Add Color with Chrysanthemums, and Robert Louis Stevenson Playing Cards with King Kalakaua
I was reading on Facebook yesterday, and a friend had planted all of these autumn croci, colchicums, in her garden. Like any bulb, it takes lots of dedication to get them planted, and then you have all of the anticipations – waiting to see if they come up and if they meet your expectations. Anyway,…
Read MoreGardener and Poet William Merwin on a Humorous Moment Between Robert Louis Stevenson and King Kalakaua
“In 2010, William and his wife, Paula, co-founded the Merwin Conservancy at his home in Haiku, Maui.” September 30, 1927 On this day, American poet WS Merwin, who always went by William, was born. In 2010, William and his wife, Paula, co-founded the Merwin Conservancy at his home in Haiku, Maui. While researching William, I…
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