Posts Tagged ‘Rudyard Kipling’
May 20, 2021 Garden Stairways, Honoré de Balzac, the Chelsea Flower Show, Rikki-tikki’s Garden, Petal by Adriana Picker, and National Pick Strawberries Day
Today we celebrate a prolific French writer and poet remembered for his realism and in his little home and garden – now a Paris museum. We’ll also learn a little history lesson about the Chelsea Flower Show. We hear an excerpt from a beloved children’s story. We Grow That Garden Library™ with an artistic look…
Read MoreThe Beef Between Rudyard Kipling and Boniface: a Damaged Tree Forced a Confrontation
“Rudyard endured these insults until one day when Boniface’s bus hit one of Rudyard’s favorite trees.” January 21, 1901 On this day, The Danville News, out of Danville, Kentucky, shared a story about the English Journalist, poet, and short-story writer Rudyard Kipling. It turns out that Rudyard Kipling rented a place called The Elms in the…
Read MoreJanuary 22, 2021 Lessons from Festival Beach Food Forest, Ellsworth Jerome Hill, the Douglas-Fir, Boris Levinson on Turning to Nature, Betty Crocker’s Kitchen Gardens by Mary Mason Campbell, and Rudyard Kipling’s Letters About His Street Trees
Today we celebrate a disabled botanist who felt no area could be considered fully explored. We’ll also learn about the tree that honors David Douglas. We’ll hear some thoughts about the future and our need to turn to nature, which will only grow in importance. We Grow That Garden Library™ with an old book that…
Read MoreRudyard Kipling
The Glory of the Garden January 18, 1936 Today is the anniversary of the death of the English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, Rudyard Kipling. One of England’s most famous writers, Rudyard, purchased a property called Bateman’s in East Sussex in 1902. Rudyard called it his “good and peaceable place.” From the onset, Rudyard envisioned…
Read MoreJanuary 18, 2021 Say No Thanks to Garden Shortcuts, Alan Alexander Milne, Rudyard Kipling, Thoughts on Thistles, A Year at Kew by Rupert Smith, and the Maple on the Canadian Dollar Bill
Today we celebrate the man who bought a forested property and wrote Winnie the Pooh. We’ll also learn about the poet who found fame and then gardening on a grand scale. We’ll hear some wonderful words about thistles. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a behind-the-scenes look at one of the World’s top gardens. And…
Read MoreGardens Are Not Made by Singing
by Rudyard Kipling Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Rudyard Kipling
Read MoreThe Glory of the Garden
by Rudyard Kipling Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, With statues on terraces the and peacocks strutting by; But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye. For where the thick laurels grow, along the thin red…
Read MoreJune 27, 2019 National Onion Day, Thomas Say, William Williams, William Guilfoyle, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, The Glory of the Garden by Rudyard Kipling, Practical Botany for Gardeners by Geoff Hodge, Make a Garden Map, and Brevities
Today is the very first National Onion Day. It was founded by the National Onion Association, which represents almost 500 growers from across the United States. The association celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2013. Onions are a member of the bulb family. There are twenty-seven different types of onion. They all grow underground, and they’re…
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