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Flowers for Aphra Behn: The First Woman of Letters and Garden Retreats
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. Aphra Behn April 16, 1689 On this day, the incomparable Aphra Behn-a woman as bold as a trumpet vine climbing toward…
Francis Quarles’ “Nothing Perfect on Earth”: The Tender Blossoms of April
by Francis Quarles Even as the soil (which April’s gentle showers Have filled with sweetness and enriched with flowers) Rears up her sucking plants, still shooting forth The tender blossoms of her timely birth; But if denied the beams of cheerly May, They hang their withered heads, and fade away. As featured onThe Daily Gardener…
Gardens Painted in Poetry: The Wit and Legacy of William Kent
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 12, 1748 Dearest reader, On this day, we mark the passing of William Kent, the visionary who helped free gardens from the tyranny of rigid formality. Often called a pioneer of the…
Always Marry an April Girl: Ogden Nash’s Playful Ode to Spring
by Ogden Nash Praise the spells and bless the charms, I found April in my arms. April golden, April cloudy, Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy; April soft in flowered languor, April cold with sudden anger, Ever-changing, ever true – I love April, I love you. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired…
Mary Hiester Reid: Roses, Wychwood, and the Painter’s Immortal Crown
by Duncan Sutherland Macorquodale This is a memorial poem for Mary Hiester Ried written by Canadian newspaperman and a native son of Scotland, Duncan Sutherland Macorquodale – reprinted in the 9th Volume of The Canadian Theosophist (Toronto) November 15, 1921, Vol 9. There’s a reference to Wychwood, Reid’s house, known as Upland Cottage. Wychwood is…
Charles Baudelaire: A Book is a Garden of Counselors
by Charles Baudelaire A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Note: Today is the birthday of Charles Baudelaire, the French poet, who was born on this day in 1821. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired…
William Watson’s “April”: The Girlish Daughter of Springtime
by William Watson An April poem that puts all others in shadow is the lyrical “April” by William Watson (Books By This Author). England’s onetime poet Laureate began the poem with an unforgettably beautiful expression that reminds us that April is the girlish daughter of springtime: “April, April, laugh your girlish laughter, then, the moment…
Algernon Swinburne and A Forsaken Garden: The Ghost of a Lost Paradise
by Algernon Swinburne The poet Algernon Swinburne was born on this day in 1837. In his poem, A Forsaken Garden, he describes a garden – or rather, “the ghost of a garden.” At the show’s beginning, we talked about our dreams for our gardens. In this poem, the dreamer of the garden has left, and…
John Greenleaf Whittier and The Mayflower: Faith in Bloom
by John Greenleaf Whittier The Mayflower is a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (Books by this author) Here’s an excerpt: O sacred flowers of faith and hope, As sweetly now as then Ye bloom on many a birchen slope, In many a pine-dark glen. Behind the sea-wall’s rugged length, Unchanged, your leaves unfold,…
Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter and The Wake-Robin: A Bloom Late for Spring
by John Burroughs When leaves green and hardy From sleep have just uncurled – Spring is so tardy In this part of the world – There comes a white flower forth, Opens its eyes, Looks out upon the earth, In drowsy surprise. A fair and pleasant vision The nodding blossoms make; And the flower’s name…
Maria Sibylla Merian’s Description of a Pineapple and Butterfly
by Maria Sibylla Merian Here’s a description of a pineapple and butterfly in Merian’s own words: “This is a ripe Ananas (pineapple), which must be peeled to be eaten. This fruit tastes [like] one had mixed grapes, apricots, red currants, apples, and pears, and [we could] taste all of them at once. Its smell…
Louis MacNeice: Sunlight on the Garden and the Shadows of Time
by Louis MacNeice The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold; When all is told We cannot beg for pardon. Our freedom as freelances Advances towards its end; The earth compels, upon it Sonnets and birds descend; And soon, my friend, We shall have…
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