Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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November 22, 1819
, the English author, is born.

Eliot wrote,

I wish the sky would down ...
Why will it not?
Then all the valleys would be and white,
And soft to tread on.

Eliot loved the idea of raining roses but knew it was only a
She wrote,

It never rains roses.
When we want more roses, we must more...


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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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November 22, 1819
, the English author, is born.
My favorite quotes from Eliot are about her love of . She wrote:

"I think am quite wicked with roses.
I like to gather them and smell them till they have no scent left."

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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Tigger and Roo pushed each other about in a friendly way,
and Kanga said,

"Now then, run along.
You can go and collect fir-cones."

So they went to the Six Pine Trees, and threw fir-cones at each other until they had forgotten what they came for.

~A.A. Milne


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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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