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August 12, 2022
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1759 Birth of Thomas Andrew Knight FRS, English horticulturalist and botanist. He served as the 2nd President of the Royal Horticultural Society…
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Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events August 11 marks the end of the Dog Days of Summer which began 40 days ago on July 3rd. Here are some…
Read MoreAugust 10, 2022
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1869 Birth of Robert Laurence Binyon, CH was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were…
Read MoreAugust 9, 2022
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1593 Birth of Izaak Walton was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a…
Read MoreAugust 8, 2022
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1884 1933 Today is the anniversary of the death of the American lyric poet Sara Teasdale. In 1918, Teasdale was awarded the…
Read MoreAugust 5, 2022
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events Horace Walpole to the Earl of Strafford on August 5 1762 “we have not had a tea-cup-full of rain till today for…
Read MoreAugust 4, 2022
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1792 A SENSITIVE PLANT in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like…
Read MoreAugust 3, 2022
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1614 Birth of Juan de Arellano, Spanish floral still life painter. During the Baroque era, he developed a lucrative formula for his…
Read MoreAugust 2, 2022
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1858 Birth of William Watson, English poet. He was a poet laureate of England. His iconic poem April reminds us that the…
Read MoreAugust 1, 2022
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events August 1st is Lammas Day (“La-MA-ss”). Lammas was a festival that celebrated the annual wheat and corn harvest. After Lammas Day, corn…
Read MoreJuly 29, 2022 Carl Linnaeus, Olaus Rudbeck, Edith Coleman, Stanley Kunitz, Sten Nadolny, The Tool Book by William Bryant Logan, and Louisa Yeomans King
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1731 On this day, Carl Linnaeus wrote with admiration to his old professor, Olaus Rudbeck. Carl, the ‘Father of Plant Taxonomy’, named…
Read MoreJuly 28, 2022 Abraham Cowley, Andrew Jackson Downing, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Helen Beatrix Potter, Plants from Pits by Holly Farrell, and Fabre d’Églantine
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1667 Death of Abraham Cowley, English poet. Abraham is remembered as one of the leading English poets of the 17th century. He…
Read MoreJuly 27, 2022 Thomas Campbell, Alexandre Dumas, Martha Ballard, Louisa Yeomans King, All about Flowers by Thomas Mickey, and Edith Patch
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1777 Birth of Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet. He founded and served as the first President of the Clarence Club. He was also…
Read MoreJuly 26, 2022 Elizabeth Drinker, George Bernard Shaw, Antonio Machado, Helen Mirren, The Garden Source by Andrea Jones, and Chamomile
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1793 On this day, Elizabeth Drinker, a Quaker woman of late 18th century North America, wrote in her diary. Elizabeth kept a…
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