Posts Tagged ‘sensory gardening’
Beyond Sight: Helen Keller’s Profound Connection to Nature
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 1, 1968 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, we bid farewell to a remarkable soul whose connection to nature transcended the boundaries of sight and sound. Helen Keller, that indomitable spirit and…
Read MoreThe Power of Words: Beth Chatto on Writing Plants Into Life
by Beth Chatto Since before Christmas, I have been nibbling, in odd moments, at my new catalog. I try to write word pictures of plants, which might make them irresistible. When I began the nursery twenty years ago, I issued a very small list with descriptions of plants, as I saw them, in place of…
Read MoreBarbara Delinsky’s “Sweet Salt Air”: August’s Lush Green and Coastal Garden Senses
by Barbara Delinksy Quinnipeague in August was a lush green place where inchworms dangled from trees whose leaves were so full that the eaten parts were barely missed. Mornings meant ‘thick o’ fog’ that caught on rooftops and dripped, blurring weathered gray shingles while barely muting the deep pink of rosa rugosa or the hydrangea’s…
Read MoreEleanor Sinclair-Rhode on Homemade Potpourri: Sunshine and Summer Memories from the Garden
by Eleanour Sinclair-Rhode No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from one’s own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers. Only the sunny days should be remembered. Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired…
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