'April showers bring May flowers.' You've heard it all your life – here's where the nearly 500-year-old phrase originated:
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It looks as if the Southern Plains and Southeast are in for some steady rains this week, which got me thinking about a phrase I’m sure we’ve all heard before: “April showers bring May flowers.” It has always seemed to me like it checks out — there’s usually some rain in April, and flowers in May. But where does this saying come from, and how accurate is it?
A visitor to Dyrham Park in England’s South Gloucestershire walks through flower and shrub arrangements on April 21, 2023. As to origin, the earliest known utterance that seems to capture this sentiment comes from English poet Thomas Tusser, who, in his 1557 collection “
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