The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

I like this!  Of course, I may be partial to a poem the uses the botanical name for the pumpkin :-) THAT THANKSGIVING DINNER. H ow d...

T his hand tinted engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine is my cup of tea!                        Have fun eye surfing on...

I had no idea pumpkin pies have been the muse to so many poets!  Pumpkin pie poems are  coming out of the the woodwork it seems.  They e...

I didn't know the song that I sang in elementary school every Thanksgiving season was a poem by  Lydia Maria Child.   And I do not thi...

W hen I looked at my first Huntington catalogs in the Biodiversity Heritage Library I got the impression they didn't like color!  ...