Barbara Kingsolver: Spring’s Poet of Local Roots and Global Stories

Barbara Kingsolver (colorized and enhanced) photo credit Evan Kafka.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 8, 1955 Dearest garden reader, On this day, amidst the changing tides of seasons and stories, the world welcomed Barbara Kingsolver, an American writer and poet whose words bloom with the rich…

Read More

October 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

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 Curated News House & Garden | Nicola Harding’s tips for outdoor dining | Nicola Harding Botanical History On This Day 1524 Birth of Joachim Patinir, Flemish Renaissance painter…

Read More

April 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

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 Curated News Plants and People of Vanuatu (“vah-new-AH-too”) | The New York Botanical Garden | Earth Day Documentary Premiere Botanical History On This Day 1832 Birthday of…

Read More

I Have Seen Women Looking at Jewelry Ads

A vintage illustration for Pearce's Seeds shows a winged figure in a flowing white gown standing atop a globe marked "Canada" and "United States."

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 More

Dreaming in Seed Catalogs: Winter’s Greatest Temptation

Garden planning in cozy January.

Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Garden planning in cozy January. January 9, 2020 Today’s Unearthed Words are a love letter to every gardener’s guilty winter pleasure—the…

Read More

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

Unsheltered 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 More

April 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

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 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…

Read More