When Williamsburg Bloomed: John Custis’s Garden Vision

John Custis IV, by Charles Bridges, 1725

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 14, 1749 On this day, John Custis IV, an American planter, politician, government official, and military officer, died. His garden legacy has recently captured headlines as archaeologists uncover what was once colonial…

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The Activist’s Garden: Frances Harper and the Poetry of Growth

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1893

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 24, 1825 Devoted cultivators of both gardens and justice, today we honor the birth of one whose pen planted seeds of change across our nation – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, whose legacy…

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