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Lessons from fading leaves: Martine Bailey on November’s quiet solitude
by Martine Bailey, American historical novelist, A Taste for Nightshade The next morning I had to get outside, and so began a period of long walks in the park. Early November continued bright, with the last sun of the year shining low and coppery over the woods. Striding through heaps of rusty autumn leaves, I…
A patchwork of gardens: Amy Stewart on carrying plants through a lifetime
by Amy Stewart Like a chain letter, I will take a plant from this garden to the next and from the next garden to the one after that, and so on, until someday I am an old woman nurturing along with a patchwork quilt of a garden, with cuttings and scraps from every garden I…
The winter garden remembers: Beverley Nichols on November’s quiet beauty
by Beverley Nichols Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens and are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn’t like to be ignored like this. It doesn’t like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old…
A wintry dreamscape: Archibald Lampman’s “In November”
by Archibald Lampman The leafless forests slowly yield To the thick-driving snow. A little while And night shall darken down. In shouting file The woodmen’s carts go by me homeward-wheeled, Past the thin fading stubbles, half concealed, Where the last plowman follows still his row, Turning black furrows through the whitening field. Far off the…
Donald Culross Peattie: Winter Halftones, Feathered Rainbows, and the Kings of Trees
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 young Donald C. Peattie in nature. November 16, 2020 Today we remember Donald Culross Peattie, the celebrated American botanist, naturalist,…
First Snow and the Garden’s Song: Wonder, Renewal, and Nature’s Duet
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. The first snow in the garden. November 13, 2020 The first snow carries a particular kind of wonder-the kind that rewrites…
Buy Hyacinths to Feed Thy Soul: Saadi’s Timeless Wisdom on Beauty and Loss
by Saadi If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And of thy meager store, Two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. – Saadi, Persian Sufi poet, in Gulistan (The Rose Garden), 1258 Notes: If you plant spring bulbs, I…
November’s Grace: Fading Light, Stately Days, and Grapes in the Sun
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. Sunshine in the November garden. November 11, 2020 November often arrives with a hush-a month poised delicately between the radiance of…
Henry Van Dyke’s Garden Wisdom: Spring Days, Birdsongs, and Cities in Bloom
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. Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) was a prominent American author, educator, poet, playwright, and clergyman. November 10, 2020 Today marks the birthday…
Nothing Grows but Washing and Babies: Dylan Thomas’s Wry Garden Reflection
by Dylan Thomas Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. Notes: The Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas, died on this day in 1953 at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. He had consumed 18 straight martinis. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the…
The Garden That I Love: Alfred Austin on Gardens as Personal Autobiography
by Alfred Austin A garden that you make yourself becomes associated with your personal history and that of your friends, interwoven with your tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest, autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like. …
November’s Quiet Grip: Henry Rollins on Autumn’s Transition
by Henry Rollins I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip. As featured…
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