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Garden Plant of the Week
Selected from the many species in, or historical to, the Garden.
Long-leaved Chickweed
Stellaria longifolia
Link on name goes to more information and photos of this plant.
Another Wild Botanic Garden
A predecessor to Eloise Butler's Garden
The Wild Garden of George Upham Hay in New Brunswick - Article
A Seasonal Poem
The dewdrops on every blade of grass are so much like silver drops
that I am obliged to stoop down as I walk to see if they are pearls,
and those sprinkled on the ivy-woven beds of primroses underneath the
hazels, whitethorns and maples are so like gold beads that I stooped
down to feel if they were hard, but they melted from my finger.
And
where the dew lies on the primrose, the violet and whitethorn leaves
they are emerald and beryl, yet nothing more than the dews of the
morning on the budding leaves;
Taken from Dewdrops by
John Clare, (1793-1864)
Reflections
“When our government and our capitalists are laboring to bring new land under irrigation by the construction of huge and expensive works, floods are tearing away, in small parcels, here and there, an aggregate of old land, much of it already irrigated, which is comparable to the new land in area and value. The opening of these great reclamation projects we celebrate by oratory and monuments, but the loss of our existing farms we dismiss as an act of God - like the storm or the earthquake, inevitable. But it is not an act of God; on the contrary, it is the direct result of our own misuse of the country we are trying to improve.”
Aldo Leopold, 1924 from Pioneers and Gullies.
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Downloadable PDF format books.
1907-1933. Companion book to The Wild Gardener
Martha Crone and the Wild Flower Garden
1933-1958. Companion book to the Crone History
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