Euphorbia, commonly called spurge, is related to Poinsettia, as the outer bracts look like flowers. There is usually a single colorful female bract, actually a leaf, surrounded by male bracts born beneath the inconspicuous true flowers.

Dame Evelyn Glennie is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist and composer who tours regularly throughout the world.

Haines Eason reads his poems "This Town Will Throw Itself at Anyone," "Crickets in an Airtight Jar," and "Musee Mecanique."

Because the deer do not eat the spiraeas in my garden, I am becoming more and more devoted to these shrubs. I would never have predicted this would happen, but one’s preferences are often shaped by unforeseen circumstances – in life as well as in the garden.

On this edition of The Poets Weave, Christopher Citro reads nonsense poems by Edward Lear.

Music from the English Renaissance with Piffaro and choral music by Vivaldi with Ensemble Caprice.

Media critic Ken Auletta in conversation with Owen Johnson

Cicely Mary Barker wrote a poem for children called “The Song of the Nasturtium Fairy.” Like all of her poetry, it is old fashioned and whimsical. She visualizes a nasturtium fairy using a leaf as an umbrella, or as she says, a brolly.

Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the British Ambassador to the United States, speaks with Patrick O’Meara and plays two favorite musical selections.

Raleigh Lee will soon receive his MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. At Indiana, he was a reader of poetry and nonfiction for the Indiana Review and the 2010 recipient of the school's Bertolt Clever Writing Prize. Raleigh grew up in Meadville, Pennsylvania, a small town in the northwest part of the state.