Blossoms Eternal: Remembering Abraham Mignon on His Final Day

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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 21, 1679 On this day, dear readers, we bid farewell to a master whose brushstrokes captured nature’s ephemeral beauty with an immortality his own life was cruelly denied. On the summer solstice,…

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June 21, 2019 The Best Time in the Garden, Abraham Mignon, Cyrus McCormick, Frederick Law Olmsted, Summer Solstice, Donald Culross Peattie, Flowering Earth, National Selfie Day, and Advice on Weeding from 1843

The Daily Gardener Podcast Album Cover with a pot of rosemary - the herb for remembrance - beckoning gardeners to remember to listen to the show. Updated September 2025.

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee  Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community Monologue When is the best time to divide? To prune? To transplant? In general, the answer I most often give is that the best time to do…

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