May 5, 2026 Charles Wesley Powell, Thomas Hayton Mawson, Søren Kierkegaard, Napoleon's Garden Island by Donal P. McCracken, and Nicole Maxwell

The Daily Gardener · May 5, 2026 · 25m

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I ran across a little poem the other day by Thomas Edward Brown, who was born on the Isle of Man on this day in 1830.

This poem is what Thomas is remembered for.

It's called My Garden, and it opens with the line:

"A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!"

"God wot" is an old English way of saying "God knows."

So a garden is a lovesome thing.

God knows.

And what a claim.

Not that a garden is a useful thing…