The Daily Gardener

Nov 18 2024 545 ep. 20 mins 122
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The Daily Gardener is a podcast about Garden History and Literature. The podcast celebrates the garden in an "on this day" format and every episode features a Garden Book. Episodes are released M-F.

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November 19, 2024 November Gardens Between Activity and Rest, Helen Hunt Jackson, Danske Dandridge, Julia Wilmotte Henshaw, Outside In by Sean A. Pritchard, and Amy Baik Lee's Garden Closing

Nov 18 2024 28 mins  
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1854 Danske ["DAN-sker"] Dandridge, poet, historian, and garden writer, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1937 Julia Wilmotte [will-MOT] Henshaw, Canadian botanist, geographer, writer, a

November 18, 2024 A Century of November Garden Reflections, Archibald Menzies, Asa Gray, New Nordic Gardens by Annika Zetterman, and Beatrix Farrand Plans the Rose Garden for the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)

Nov 17 2024 29 mins  
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1793 Archibald Menzies, the Scottish surgeon-botanist, reluctantly departs Santa Barbara aboard the HMS Discovery during Vancouver's expedition. 1810 Asa Gray is born. He was a figure w

November 15, 2024 Garden Musings, William Wordsworth, Georgia O'Keefe, Around the House and In the Garden by Dominique Browning, and Empress Josephine's Les Liliacées by Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Nov 14 2024 31 mins  
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1806 William Wordsworth received a life-changing invitation from Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont to design and build a winter garden at her estate in an old gravel quarry. This unique req

November 14, 2024 A Second Spring, Nell Gwynn, John Custis IV, Gardens for the Soul by Sara Bird and Dan Duchars, and Robert Buist

Nov 13 2024 27 mins  
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1687 Eleanor "Nell" Gwynn, died at the age of 37 in her Pall Mall house in London. Known as "pretty, witty Nell" by diarist Samuel Pepys, she was one of the most celebrated figures of t

November 13, 2024 Gardens, Meteors, and Chrysanthemums, Joseph Paxton, Cherry Trees of 1909, The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Cacti and Succulents by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Paul Rees and The Dangerous World of Rare Orchids

Nov 12 2024 23 mins  
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1849 A most extraordinary presentation took place at Windsor Castle. Imagine, if you will, standing in the grand halls of Windsor Castle as Joseph Paxton (PAX-ton) presented a massive

November 12, 2024 Revelations in the Fall Garden, Auguste Rodin, Princess Therese of Bavaria, Habitat Creation In Garden Design by Catherine Heatherington and Alex Johnson, and Clarissa Tucker Tracy

Nov 11 2024 24 mins  
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1840 Auguste Rodin (oh-GOOST roh-DAN), the great French sculptor, was born. A man who found the divine in both marble and flowers - Auguste Rodin would ultimately earn the title of the

November 08, 2024 Winter Preparation, William Copeland McCalla, Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, A New Cottage Garden by Mark Bolton, and Margaret Mitchell

Nov 07 2024 32 mins  
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1872 William Copeland McCalla, Canadian botanist and photographer, is born. McCalla would become one of Alberta's most influential botanists, combining his passion for photography with

November 07, 2024 November's Little Garden Tasks, Rockingham Colonial Gardens, Warren Manning, The Landscape of Home by Edmund Hollander, and Ruth Pitter

Nov 06 2024 31 mins  
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1783 General George Washington penned his historic Farewell Address to his troops at Rockingham, marking a pivotal moment in American history. Today, this historic site continues to tel

November 06, 2024 Finding Hope in the November Garden, Alice Lounsberry, Frank Kingdon-Ward, Favorite Poems for the Garden by Bushel & Peck Books, and Martha Turnbull

Nov 05 2024 28 mins  
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1868 The botanist and garden writer Alice Lounsberry is born in New York City. 1885 The renowned British botanist and explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward was born in Manchester, England. Grow T

November 05, 2024 Arranging Flowers and Planting Bulbs, Humphry Marshall, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Garden Favorites by Warren Schultz, Rebecca W. Atwater and Rick Darke, and Ida Tarbell

Nov 04 2024 30 mins  
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1801 On this day, America lost one of its pioneering botanists, Humphry Marshall, the "Father of American Dendrology." 1869 Ellen Shipman, a woman who found her voice in the whispers