Posts Tagged ‘Snowdrops’
The Snowdrop Queen: Remembering Margaret Owen Ten Years After her Passing
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 24, 2014 And it was on this day, my dear friend, that the gardening world lost one of its most passionate voices – Margaret Owen MBE, the remarkable “Queen of Snowdrops.” Just…
Read MoreWelcome February with Cicely Mary Barker: the Fair Maids of February and the Snowdrop Fairy
“Cicely would draw the flowers and the fairies and then write poetry about them.” The English illustrator Cicely Mary Barker is remembered for depicting fairies and flowers. In Cicely’s fabulous fantasy world, every flower was granted its particular fairy to protect it from harm. For winter, Cicely created fairies and poems for these plants: Snowdrop,…
Read MoreCandlemas: A Gardener’s Guide to Winter’s Midpoint
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 2, 2021 On this day, dear gardeners, we find ourselves at the cusp of a most intriguing celebration – Candlemas. A day that, much like the delicate unfurling of a spring bud,…
Read MoreBeatrix Potter’s Charming Garden Letter to Dulcie
Letters to Dulcie Beatrix Potter writes to a little girl named Dulcie and describes her garden. She writes that her garden has: “… a box hedge around the flower bed, and moss roses and pansies and black currants and strawberries and peas —and big sage bushes for Jemima, but the onions always do badly. I…
Read MoreLouise Beebe Wilder: The Garden Writer Who Brought Color and Moonlight to Gardening
One of America’s Greates Garden Writers Today is the birthday of one of America’s greatest Garden writers and one of the 20th Century’s most famous horticulturists, Louise Beebe Wilder. Louise was born into a wealthy family in Baltimore. After marrying an architect named Walter Wilder, they bought a country place – a 200-acre estate in…
Read MoreSurprising Facts About January’s Birthflowers: Carnation and Snowdrop
“Snowdrops are an indicator flower signaling the transition from winter into spring. Thus, the meaning of a Snowdrop blossom is Hope.” January’s birth flowers are the carnation and snowdrop. Let’s take a moment to celebrate both. Carnations Carnations are some of the world’s oldest flowers. They have been cultivated for over 2000 years. The…
Read MoreThe Secret Garden of George Orwell
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 25, 1903 On this day, the incomparable George Orwell made his entrance into our world – a man whose pen would later carve truths into the collective consciousness of society with such…
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