Although this is not substantiated, some believe that gladioli were "the lilies of the field" that Jesus spoke of in the Sermon on the Mount, for they grew wild in the Holy Land.
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I am lucky to have a large garden space and so I have the luxury of being able to dedicate some of my beds to a single perennial species.
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As a young trumpeter Freddie Hubbard was everywhere, appearing on some of the most landmark jazz albums of the 1960s.
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In her book "The Once and Future Gardener," Virginia Clayton provides examples of articles that were published in popular American gardens magazines between 1900 and 1940. One article by Helen Wilson focused on spire-like flowers. -
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From the archives, an hourlong salute to the life and work of a legendary classical pianist. -
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Happiness is a feeling rather than an equation because we can never solve it the same way twice. -
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What can one commodity reveal about our food systems, about health, about labor and capitalism and about the environmental costs of so-called cheap food production? -
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We’re sounding the trumpet this week on Harmonia, with magnificent baroque trumpets in virtuosic solo music and majestic choral and orchestral works from Monteverdi to Telemann. Our featured release is Altissima: Works for High Baroque Trumpet with soloist Josh Cohen. -
Gabrielle Myers reads "You Can’t Fly into a Mouth Filled with Past Fears of Burning," "Everything We’ve Ever Loved Must End and Die and Reverse," and "Shadows on His Mind-Cave." -
Will the words "summer vacation" become like phone booths and trading stamps, ceasing to have any real meaning in the everyday lives of Americans? -
In celebration of three-quarters of a century of WFIU, we bring you the very first installment of Harmonia, not heard on air since 1991.
