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August 14, 2019 Saint Werenfrid’s Day, the Liberty Tree, Forest and Stream, Ada Hayden, FTD, Edgar Walter Denison, Thomas Gunn, Tulipomania by Mike Dash, Lined Pots, and the Canning Lid Shortage of 1975
Today, August 14, is Saint Werenfrid’s Day. Werenfrid is the patron saint of vegetable gardens. He is often portrayed as a priest holding up a ship with a coffin in it or displayed as a priest laid to rest in his ship. Werenfrid is also invoked for gout and stiff joints, which, if you’re a…
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by Thomas Gunn How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Thomas Gunn
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