Posts Tagged ‘Arts and Crafts Movement’
May 6, 2026 Jean Senebier, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Maurice Maeterlinck, The Gardens of William Morris by Jill Duchess of Hamilton, and Ellen Schulz Quillin
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today’s Show Notes All things are difficult before they’re easy. And I think about that every May. Because right now, the garden is all effort. You’re…
Read MoreMunstead Wood’s First Rose of 1918: A Blooming Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 16, 1918 On this day, the rose season began at Munstead Wood, the Arts and Crafts style home and surrounding gardens in Surrey, England, created by the renowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.…
Read MoreWilliam Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement: Nature-Inspired Designs That Changed the World
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 24, 1834 Dearest reader, On this day, we celebrate the birth of William Morris, the British textile designer, poet, writer, and impassioned socialist activist who came to define the Arts and Crafts…
Read MoreNovember 20, 2020 What to Know Before Planting Bulbs, Penelope Hobhouse, Richard Fagan, August Henry Kramer, Martine Bailey, Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement by Judith Tankard, and the Misnaming of Lespedeza
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Things I Wish I Knew Before Planting Fall Bulbs | Family Handyman | Helen Newling Lawson Botanical History On This Day 1929 Penelope Hobhouse, influential…
Read MoreThomas Hayton Mawson: Edwardian Landscape Architect and Author of The Art and Craft of Garden Making
Thomas H. Mawson & Sons Today is the anniversary of the death of the most prolific Edwardian Landscape Architect and town planner Thomas Hayton Mawson who died on this day in 1933. When Mawson was a teenager, his dad started a nursery and fruit farm in Yorkshire. Mawson loved the orchard, but his happiness came…
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