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Sir Walter Scott
Pen in Hand On this day in 1832, the author and poet Sir Walter Scott arrived back at his incredible home called Abbottsford on the banks of the River Tweed in the beautiful Scottish borders. Scott’s health was failing him, and he asked that a bed be set up in the dining room so that…
Read MoreJuly 7, 2020 Rhodds Farm, Creeping Avens, Henry Compton, Frances Stackhouse Acton, William Curtis, Sir Walter Scott, The Dormouse and the Doctor by AA Milne, The Himalayan Garden by Jim Jermyn, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Today we celebrate a bishop botanist whose love of plants was second only to his love of God. We’ll also learn about the botanist daughter of a key botanist in England. We celebrate the botanical entrepreneur and the creator of the influential Curtis Botanical Magazine. We also celebrate the writer who lived and worked in…
Read MoreNovember’s Sky is Chill and Drear
by Sir Walter Scott November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Sir Walter Scott
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