Posts Tagged ‘Barbara Kingsolver’
April 8, 2022 Hugo von Mohl, Levi Lamborn, Mary Pickford, Betty Ford, Immersion by Nola Anderson, and Barbara Kingsolver
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History 1805 Birth of Hugo von Mohl, German botanist. One newspaper called him the “greatest botanist of his day.” He coined the word…
Read MoreOctober 5, 2021 Outdoor Dining Area Design, Joachim Patinir, William Hamilton Gibson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Barbara Kingsolver, Dirr’s Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs by Michael Dirr, and Denis Diderot
Today in botanical history, we celebrate a Flemish Renaissance painter who painted the first landscapes, the American naturalist and artist who saved Prospect Park, and an American botanist who jotted down a little poem on one of the pages in his herbarium – a little known treasure. We’ll hear an October excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver…
Read MoreApril 22, 2021 Plants and People of Vanuatu, J Sterling Morton, August Wilhelm Eichler, Spring Gratitude, Kitchen Garden Cookbook by Jeanne Kelley, and the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden
Today we celebrate the man who conceived of a new holiday that became Arbor Day. We’ll also learn about the man who developed the first classification system for plants based on evolution. We’ll hear some grateful words about spring from the author Barbara Kingsolver. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a garden cookbook that is…
Read MoreI Have Seen Women Looking at Jewelry Ads
by Barbara Kingsolve I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January. Note: Today’s Unearthed Words are all about seed catalogs. If you…
Read MoreUnsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver This book came out in 2018. Although it’s a fictional book, it features the naturalist Mary Treat, who corresponds with Darwin, and a character who risks his job to teach evolution. In real life, Treat exchanged letters with both Darwin & Asa Gray. Treat is…
Read MoreApril 11, 2019 Yearlong Care of the Garden, Luther Burbank , Yogi Yogananda, Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen, John Paulus Lotsy, Ogden Nash, Barbara Kingsolver, Mary Treat, A New Garden Tote, and the Clark Botanic Garden
How much do you care for your garden? Do your time and attention stay pretty constant throughout the season? If not, why not? What would your garden look like in August if you loved it then as much as you do now? What must you do to sustain a high level of care for your…
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