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Signs of the Season: August Weather Lore and Winter’s Shadow
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. August skies above a field of sunflowers. August 2, 2020 August weather has always carried a whisper of prophecy. It is…
Lammas and the Gifts of August: Poppies, Waterlilies, and Summer’s Queen
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. August poppies August 1, 2020 Today we celebrate Lammas Day, the old festival of first fruits-the time when the wheat and…
Summer’s Passing: Emerson’s Reflections and Hanshan’s Blossoms
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. Chrysanthemum blooms among the leaves. July 31, 2020 Today’s reflections remind us of summer’s twin truths-its abundance and its brevity. In…
Joyce Kilmer Remembered: Trees, Spring, and the Strength of Old Oaks
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. Alfred Joyce Kilmer, an American journalist and poet. He is primarily remembered for his short poem “Trees,” published in 1913. July…
The Splendor of the Tomato: Neruda’s Ode and Northerns’ Good Tomato
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. Tomatoes in the garden. July 29, 2020 Today’s poems celebrate one of summer’s most luscious icons-the tomato-both in its sensual abundance…
Of Husbandry and Fleeting Blossoms: Tusser’s Garden Counsel and Herrick’s Flowering Muse
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. Summer blooms in the glow of a setting sun. July 28, 2020 Today we travel back in time to the gardens…
Whimsy in the Garden: Nonsense Verses and the Playful Spirit of Plants
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. Tea time in the Garden. July 27, 2020 Today is Take Your Houseplants for a Walk Day-a whimsical celebration that invites…
July Folklore: Weather Signs, Farming Wisdom, and Garden Lore
by Anonymous Never trust a July sky. Never trust the sky in the month of July. As July, so next January. If the 1st of July be rainy weather, it will rain more or less for three weeks together. If ant hills are high in July, the coming winter will be hard. Whatever July and…
A July Afternoon: Walt Whitman’s Vision of Pond, Sky, and Silence
by Walt Whitman The fervent heat, but so much more endurable in this pure air — the white and pink pond-blossoms, with great heart-shaped leaves; the glassy waters of the creek, the banks, with dense bushery, and the picturesque beeches and shade and turf; the tremulous, reedy call of some bird from recesses, breaking the…
Seeds Beneath a Waxing Moon: Vita Sackville-West’s Poetry of Foresight and Bloom
by Vita Sackville-West When skies are gentle, breezes bland. When loam that’s warm within the hand Falls friable between the tines. Sow hollyhocks and columbines. The tufted pansy, and the tall Snapdragon in the broken wall. Not for this summer, but for next. Since foresight is the gardener’s text. And though his eyes may never…
The Soul of the Garden: Faith, Labor, Lessons, and a Taste of Strawberries
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 summer garden with a gazebo. July 23, 2020 Today’s reflections are a gentle tribute to the art of simply being…
The Sleep of Seeds: Lucia Cherciu on Drought, Faith, and Hidden Growth
by Lucia Cherciu It didn’t rain all summer. Instead of water, my father used prayer for his garden. Despite his friends’ laughter, he planted spinach and lettuce, countless rows of cucumbers in beds lined up meticulously ignoring old people’s warnings about the drought. Every afternoon, he pushed his hat back, wiped off his sweat, and…
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