Podcast

January 14, 2020 Wes Shaw of Horniman Gardens, Richard Wilford on Alpines, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Henri Fantin-Latour, Walter Hood Fitch, A Garden of Marvels by Ruth Kassinger, 3-Vase Propagation Station, and January’s birth flowers

Today we celebrate the Father of Paleobotany and the botanical illustrator honored by King Charles X. We’ll learn about the botanical painter who got sick of painting flowers (he’d painted 800 of them) and the botanical illustrator who worked for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and Kew Gardens. Today’s Unearthed Words feature the hidden (and often unappreciated) transformations happening in our garden during January. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that helps us understand plant physiology through an intimate and…

January 13, 2020 Rare Apples with William Mullan, Cornell College Trees, Maria Sibylla Merian, Nicolaus Thomas Host, Joseph Rock, Plough Monday, Hannah Rebecca Hudson, Creating Sanctuary by Jessi Bloom, Bamboo Saucers, and Air-Layering a Rubber Plant

Today we celebrate the woman who has been called the greatest painter of plants and insects who ever lived and the birthday of a man who is remembered in the name of one of the most ubiquitous garden plants. We’ll learn about an Austrian-American plant explorer who grew to feel his “real” home was in China, and we’ll learn about today’s tradition: Plough Monday – the first Monday after the 12 days of Christmas. Today’s Unearthed Words feature sweet poetry…

January 10, 2020 Charlotte Moss Winter Garden, Elm Tree Comeback, Nicholas Culpeper, Indian Tea, Henry Winthrop Sargent, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson’s Gardens by Marta McDowell, Back to the Roots Organic Mushroom Kit, and the Wolf Moon

Today we celebrate the 17th-century renegade who wanted medicine through herbs to be accessible to the people and the Anniversary of the day Indian tea became available for sale in England. We will learn about the American landscape gardener whose superpower was framing a view and the English sculptor who famously said I am the landscape. Today’s Unearthed Words feature words from Henry David Thoreau – It turns out it was super cold 164 years ago today. We Grow That…

January 9, 2020 Japan’s Winter Peonies, Andre Baranowski’s Garden Wild, Catherine Parr Traill, Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton, Beatrix Farrand, Marvin Gaye, Seed Catalog Poetry, The Lifelong Gardener by Toni Gattone, Jute Rope Plant Basket, and Silver Spoons

Today we celebrate an incredible woman, a true pioneer of Canada and a writer and botanical illustrator. We’ll learn about one of the most dedicated and famous bryologists, and she helped establish the New York Botanical Garden. Today’s Unearthed Words feature wonderful thoughts on the gardener’s favorite winter reading material – seed catalogs. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that helps us Garden through the back half of our lives. I’ll talk about a garden item that will…

January 8, 2020 Dogwood Days, 5 Flower Trends for 2020, Coffee House Ban, Alfred Wallace, Jac P. Thijsse, Harold Hillier, January One-Liners, Houseplants by Lisa Steinkopf, Coloring Fibonacci, and Walter Tennyson Swingle

Today we celebrate the ending of the 1675 coffee shop ban in England and the birthday of a man who devised his own theory of evolution independently of Charles Darwin. We’ll learn about one of the fiercest Dutch conservationists and the nurseryman who created the world’s most excellent arboretum. Today’s Unearthed Words feature fabulous one-liners about January. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that helps us grow houseplants – the official greenery of January and February. I’ll talk…