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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 1731 On this day, Carl Linnaeus wrote with admiration to his old professor, Olaus Rudbeck. Carl, the ‘Father of Plant Taxonomy’, named the Rudbeckia, or Black-Eyed Susan, after his patron Olaus Rudbeck and he wrote, So long as the earth shall survive and as each spring shall…
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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 1793 On this day, Elizabeth Drinker, a Quaker woman of late 18th century North America, wrote in her diary. Elizabeth kept a diary from 1758 to 1807. Elizabeth shared her daily life in Philadelphia and in this passage she shows the timelessness of the experience of chatting…
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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 1777 Birth of Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet. He founded and served as the first President of the Clarence Club. He was also a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland. Here’s an excerpt from Thomas’s poem Field Flowers. Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse…
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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 1804 Death of William Forsyth, Scottish botanist. William trained as a gardener at the Oxford Physic Garden. In 1771, William became the backfill to Philip Miller, the royal head gardener. Three years later, Willaim built one of the very first rock gardens with over forty tons of…
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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 1664 Birth of Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat. Matthew was also a contributor to The Examiner. In his poem, A Flower Painted By Simon Verelst “Vur-rilst”, Matthew pays homage to the Flemish painter Simon Verelst who was born in Antwerp and settled in England with his…
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