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October 4, 2022 Henry David Thoreau, Mary Hiester Reid, the Dahlia, Kerry Mousetail Fern, Amish Friends 4 Seasons Cookbook by Wanda Brunstetter, and Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney

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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 1852 On this day, Henry David Thoreau writes in his journal. The maples are reddening, and birches yellowing. The mouse-ear in the shade in the middle of the day… looks as if the frost still lay on it.  Bumblebees are on the Aster… and gnats are dancing…

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October 3, 2022 Otto Jennings, Lewis Gannett, Sergei Yesenin, Thomas Wolfe, Successfully Grow & Garden Citrus Fruit Trees Using Pots and Containers by Madison Pierce, and Philippa Foot

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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 National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day Look at the Leaves Day   1877 Birth of Otto Emery Jennings, former curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and devoted scientist. In 1904, Jennings started as the custodian at the Carnegie Museum, where, over the next 41 years, he held…

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July 28, 2022 Abraham Cowley, Andrew Jackson Downing, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Helen Beatrix Potter, Plants from Pits by Holly Farrell, and Fabre d’Églantine

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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 1667 Death of Abraham Cowley, English poet. Abraham is remembered as one of the leading English poets of the 17th century. He once wrote, I never had any other desire so strong, and so like… covetousness, as that one which I have… always [had], that I might…

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July 19, 2022 Giuseppe Castiglione, Thermidor, William Pitt Fessenden, Vladimir Mayakovsky, All about Flowers by Thomas Mickey, and Mary Riddle

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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 1688 Birth of Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit brother, missionary and artist in China. After arriving in Macau China in 1715, the empower asked Giuseppe to paint him a picture. He apparently liked what he saw. Guiseppe served as an artist at the imperial court for three Qing…

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July 18, 2022 Caterina de’ Medici, Nelson Mandela, Edward Giobbi, Elizabeth Jennings, Seed to Dust by Marc Hamer, and Elizabeth Gilbert

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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 1499 On this day, Caterina de’ Medici, the third wife of Giovanni de’ Medici, wrote to the abbess of the Florentine convent, Elena Bini. Caterina’s letter was a thank you for a gift basket of fruit and flowers. The convent sent regular gifts from their garden, including…

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