Posts Tagged ‘William Wordsworth’
November 15, 2024 Garden Musings, William Wordsworth, Georgia O’Keefe, Around the House and In the Garden by Dominique Browning, and Empress Josephine’s Les Liliacées by Pierre-Joseph Redouté
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 1806 William Wordsworth received a life-changing invitation from Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont to design and build a winter garden in an old…
Read MoreWilliam Wordsworth Landscape Designer: A Winter Garden Made with Poetry
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 15, 1806 On this day, William Wordsworth received a life-changing invitation from Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont to design and build a winter garden at her estate in an old gravel quarry. This…
Read MoreRalph Waldo Emerson: The Transcendentalist Who Found Nature’s Language
“Intellectual Declaration of Independence” May 25, 1803 Today is the birthday of the American transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a son of Boston. By the time he finished his schooling at Harvard, he had decided to go by his middle name, Waldo. He was his class poet, and…
Read MoreWilliam Wordsworth’s Flowers: From Daffodils to the Beloved Lesser Celandine
A Founder of English Romanticism April 23, 1770 Today is the anniversary of the death of one of the founders of English Romanticism, the poet William Wordsworth. A lover of nature, William wrote about our relationship with the natural world. Although William is best known for his poem about Daffodils that starts, “I wandered lonely as…
Read MoreApril 7, 2021 Styling a Botanical Bookshelf, Michel Adanson, David Fairchild, William Wordsworth, Heal Thyself by Benjamin Woolley, and the Power of a Sunny Spring Day
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News The Plant Lover’s Guide to Styling a Bookshelf | Apartment Therapy | Anna Kocharian Botanical History On This Day 1727 The groundbreaking 18th-century French botanist and…
Read MoreDaffodils: the March Birth Flower, Fun Facts, and the Mother of all Daffodil Poems
“All parts of the Daffodil are toxic, and the sap is harmful to other flowers, so you must soak them separately for 24 hours before adding them to a bouquet.” The birth flower for March birthdays is the Daffodil. Daffodils are also the 10th-anniversary flower. A bouquet of Daffodils means happiness and hope, but a…
Read MoreMarch 3, 2021 Planning a Productive Veg Garden, Matthias de L’Obel, Alexander Graham Bell, Katie Vaz on Rhubarb, Find Your Mantra by Aysel Gunar, and the Birth Flower for March
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Planning and Designing a Productive Vegetable Garden | The Ukiah Daily Journal | Melinda Myers Botanical History On This Day 1616 Birthday of Flemish botanist…
Read MoreWorld Daffodil Day and Wordsworth’s Iconic Poem: The Mother of All Daffodil Poems
World Daffodil Day Today is World Daffodil Day, and there’s really one poem that is regarded as the Mother of All Daffodil Poems, and it’s this one. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside…
Read MoreDancing with the Daffodils: Wordsworth’s Timeless Ode to Joy and Solitude
by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They…
Read MoreHow Does the Meadow Flower its Bloom Unfold
by William Wordsworth How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. William Wordsworth
Read MoreSongs of the Meadow-Sweet: Wordsworth, Rossetti, and Poets of the Wildflower Fields
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. A meadow of wildflowers in spring. July 4, 2020 Today is National Meadows Day in the United Kingdom, that soft, fragrant…
Read MoreTo the Same Flower
by William Wordsworth Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet: February last, my heart First at sight of thee was glad; All unheard of as thou art, Thou must needs, I think, have had, Celandine (“seh·luhn·dine”)! And long ago. Praise of which I nothing know. Note: In medieval lore, it…
Read MoreWinter’s End and February’s Secrets: Poetic and Witty Words for the Season
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. Winter’s end in the garden. February 18, 2020 This time of year carries a quiet, sometimes somber beauty, reflected in the…
Read MoreSamuel Taylor Coleridge: Poet of Nature and Romantic Vision
Youth and Age Today is the birthday of the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was born on this day in 1772. Along with his friend, William Wordsworth, Coleridge started the Romantic Movement and was a member of the Lake Poets, a group of English poets who lived in the Lake District of England during…
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