March 31, 2022 Andrew Marvell, Dietrich Brandis, William Waldorf Astor, Leo Buscaglia, Passions by Carolyne Roehm, and Bunny Mellon

The Daily Gardener · Mar 31, 2022 · 17m

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1621 Birth of Andrew Marvell, English poet and politician. He was a friend of John Milton. In addition to writing The Garden - one of the most famous English poems of the seventeenth century - he wrote this little garden verse:

I have a garden of my own

But so with Roses overgrown

And Lilies, that you would it guess

To be a little wilderness.

1824 Birth of Dietrich Brandis, German forester and botanist.

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