Posts Tagged ‘Snowdrop’
February 2, 2021 Ideas For Your Garden, The Nature Principle at Home, How to Propagate 375 Plants by Richard Rosenfeld, and February’s Snowdrop Fairy
Today we celebrate a star from the silent film age, whose best movie featured a blind woman selling flowers. We’ll also learn about Candlemas – the ancient celebration of the quickening of the year. Candlemas is associated with the snowdrop, candles, and predicting just how much longer winter will last…. We hear a passage about…
Read MoreSir Arthur Conan Doyle: He wrote in his Garden Shed and is Buried in his Garden
“His family found him lying on the ground, one hand clutching his heart and the other holding a white snowdrop.” May 22, 1859 On this day, the British writer and doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born. In researching Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s life, I learned that Arthur was bedridden the spring before he…
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