Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Hood’
May 23, 2022 Carl Linnaeus, Thomas Hood, Georgiana Molloy, Louisa Yeomans King, The Less is More Garden by Susan Morrison, and Eric Carle
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 1707 Carl Linnaeus — Father of Taxonomy, whose Species Plantarum (1753) standardized binomials — also flipped Celsius’s scale, honored the Commelin brothers…
Read More“No” to November, “Yes” to Poetry: The Wit and Wisdom of Thomas Hood
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 23, 1799 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of a man whose words have danced through the ages, painting pictures of both joy and melancholy – Thomas Hood, the…
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by Thomas Hood No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member – No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds – November! Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of…
Read MoreNovember’s Bare Truth: Beech Trees, Ice, and Emptiness
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Beech trees in November. November 26, 2019 On this day, the garden stands hushed beneath a pewter sky, its pulse slow,…
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