Winter Weather Advisory March 25

/ A Byrdcliffe Garden, A Hudson Valley Almanack / By
“You must not, any of you, be surprised if you have moments in your gardening life of such profound depression and disappointment that you will almost wish you had been content to leave everything along and have no garden at all.”
Mrs. C.W. Earle

I’m not sure I’d go quite that far, but another ice storm might push me over the edge.

Mrs. C.W. Earle

Maria Theresa Earle (8 June 1836 – 27 February 1925)was born as Maria Theresa Villiers and wrote as as Mrs C. W. Earle. She published three Pot-Pourri gardening guides starting in 1897 with Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden.She was invited to serve at Queen Victoria’s court but refused, causing her family to nickname her “Radical Theresa.” Earle was a vegetarian, and advocated a vegetarian diet in her book Diet Difficulties with Notes on Growing Vegetables, published in 1908.

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