June 4, 2026 Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, Walter Edward Lammerts, Robert Fulghum, Ruffage by Abra Berens, and Sarah Martha Baker

The Daily Gardener · Jun 4, 2026 · 16m

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The British writer William Earle Johns once wrote in The New York Times Magazine:

"Queer things happen in the garden in May.

Little faces forgotten appear,

and plants thought to be dead

suddenly wave a green hand

to confound you."

The garden holds our dreams.

And it holds our disappointments.

Every gardener has a plant they quietly grieved — something that didn't come back the way they hoped, something…