Tag: horticulture highlight

A wall of forest looms above And sweetly the blackbird sings All the birds make melody Over me and my books and things…             –Priscian In the past we have discussed plants which commemorate Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Cherokee Chief Sequoia … Continue reading →

…But it must be that I, that animal, that Russian, that exile, from whom the bells of the chapel pullulate sounds at heart… -Wallace Stevens Perhaps at Mount Auburn, thoughts from the above lines might recall Svetlana Boym, even though … Continue reading →

 Let us whir with the golden spoke-wheels Of the sun. For tomorrow Winter drops into the waste-basket,               And the calendar calls it March.                                                                                          – Amy Lowell (Lot # 3401 Bellwort Path) The scientific definition of the beginning of spring … Continue reading →

…By wintry hills his hermit-mound The sheeted snow-drifts drape, And houseless there the snow-bird flits Beneath the fir-trees’ crape…                 –Herman Melville Many birds seek out protection from the coming harsher weather changes within our large, diverse collection of conifers … Continue reading →