Posts Tagged ‘community gardens’
Defiant Gardens: The Resilient Beauty of Japanese Internment Camp Gardens
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 3, 1942 At the Tanforan Assembly Center, a converted racetrack south of San Francisco, Charles Kikuchi put pen to paper in his journal. “These industrious Japanese!” he marveled. “They just don’t seem…
Read MoreThe Legacy of Krider Nurseries: From World’s Fair to Middlebury’s Beloved Garden Park
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 24, 1993 Dearest reader, On this day, the town of Middlebury, Indiana, gained not just a garden, but a living testament to the industrious spirit of vernacular horticulture with the donation of…
Read MoreHorace Walpole: The Gothic Gardener of Strawberry Hill
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 23, 1717 My dearest garden enthusiasts, on this day we celebrate the birth of Horace Walpole, a man who not only gave us the word ‘serendipity’ but whose “enchanted little landscape” would…
Read MorePhocas the Gardener: Saint of Soil and Soul
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 22, 1872 My dear garden friends, on this most poignant of feast days, we pause to remember Phocas the Gardener, whose story reminds us that our gardens can be vessels for the…
Read MoreBernadette Cozart: The gardener who greened Harlem and nurtured community hope
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 27, 1949 Dearest reader, On this day, we celebrate the birth of Bernadette Cozart – gardener, visionary, and the woman who dared to turn Harlem green. Imagine it: the late 1980s, when…
Read MoreThe Humboldt Botanical Garden: How Volunteers Grew a California Treasure
Botanical Education The Humboldt Botanical Garden was incorporated in the State of California. Organized by a small group of volunteers, the goal was to create an educational botanical garden for the Northern California region. The Humboldt Botanical Gardens are constructed on a 44.5 -acre site south of Eureka near the Humboldt Bay adjacent to the…
Read MoreBernadette Cozart: The Woman Who Planted Hope in Harlem
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 17, 2024 On this day, dear fellow cultivators of beauty, we celebrate the birth of a true revolutionary in the world of urban gardening. Bernadette Cozart, born in 1949, was not content…
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