Posts Tagged ‘bedding plants’
November 04, 2024 Last Call for Spring Bulbs, John Bradby Blake, William Rickatson Dykes, Harry Ferguson, My Favorite Plant by Jamaica Kincaid, and Saving Summer with a Windowsill Garden
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 On This Day Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1745 John Bradby…
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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. November 4, 1994 On this day, garden writer Barbara Pleasant finished writing her article about extending summer’s joy through winter by bringing our beloved bedding plants indoors. The article appeared in the Montgomery…
Read MoreMeasuring Wealth by Bedding Plants: Jane Powers on Victorian Gardening
Bedding Plants as a Function of Royal Status November 13, 2010 It was on this day that Jane Powers wrote an excellent botanical history piece for the Irish Times. I especially loved this article because Jane correlated the number of bedding plants a person ordered during the middle of the 19th century and their corresponding…
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