Posts Tagged ‘Winifred Mary Letts’
February 10, 2022 Carl Linneaus, Benjamin Smith Barton, Rod and Rachel Saunders, Fruit Trees for Every Garden by Orin Martin, and Winifred Mary Letts
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 1758 On this day, Carl Linneaus (books about this person), the man known as the “father of modern taxonomy,” was feeling his…
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Spring the Cheat February 10, 1882 Today is the birthday of the English writer Winifred Mary Letts. Gardeners love her quote on spring: That God once loved a garden, we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring, I well can credit it. Winifred also wrote a poem about spring called “Spring the…
Read MoreFebruary 10, 2021 New Owners at Barton Springs Nursery, Benjamin Smith Barton, Winifred Mary Letts, A Sense of the Soil, Cottage Gardens by Claire Masset, and Remembering Laura Ingalls Wilder the Naturalist
Today we celebrate a botanist who gave Meriwether Lewis a crash course in botany. We’ll also learn about a poet who wrote some touching poems that incorporated the natural world. We hear some words about getting the garden ready for growing – straightforward advice on getting started. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book…
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Spring the Cheat Today is the birthday of the English writer Winifred Mary Letts. Gardeners love her quote on spring: That God once loved a garden, we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring, I well can credit it. Winifred also wrote a poem about spring called “Spring the Cheat.” This is…
Read MoreFebruary 10, 2020 Midwinter Trees, Plant Health Resolutions, Jan Gronovius, Benjamin Smith Barton, Winifred Mary Letts, Jack Heslop-Harrison, Snow Poems, A Land Remembered by Patrick D Smith, Wood Markers, and Laura Ingalls Wilder
Today we celebrate the man who suggested naming the Twinflower for Linnaeus and the botanist who gave Meriwether Lewis a crash course in botany. We’ll learn about the English writer who wrote, that, “God once loved a garden we learn in holy writ and seeing gardens in the spring, I well can credit it.” And…
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