October 3, 2022 Otto Jennings, Lewis Gannett, Sergei Yesenin, Thomas Wolfe, Successfully Grow & Garden Citrus Fruit Trees Using Pots and Containers by Madison Pierce, and Philippa Foot

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Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee  Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day Today is National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day Today is Look at the Leaves Day 1877 Birth of Otto Emery Jennings, former curator at…

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Birch Trees and Mushroom Rain: The Natural World of Sergei Yesenin

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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 3, 1895 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of a poet whose words became the very heartbeat of Russia. Sergei Yesenin, that lyrical genius, entered the world, destined to…

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October 3, 2019 Pumpkin Allergy, Luis Née, Frederick Lueders, Frederick Pursch, David Hosack, John Torrey, Charles Sprague Sargent, Meta Orred, Sergei Yesenin, Philippa Foot, Montrose by Nancy Goodwin, Christmas Cactus, and George Dexter Butler

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I always write down little things the kids say that strike me as funny or sweet. Here’s a little blast from my past on this day in 2010: At bedtime tonight, PJ told me he wanted to bring cold lunch to school. I told him no because we have paid for hot lunch. (Apparently many…

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All Will Pass

Sergei Yesenin

by Sergei Yesenin All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn. I will no longer be young.     Note: Sergei Yesenin, a Russian lyric poet, was born on this day in 1895. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most…

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