Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Boone’
“I Want Elbow-Room!”: Daniel Boone and the Gardener’s Eternal Struggle
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 7, 1769 It was on this day that our intrepid frontiersman Daniel Boone first cast his wilderness-hungry eyes upon the virgin forests of what we now call Kentucky. One can almost picture…
Read MoreJune 7, 2019 Garden Journal Format, Louis Claude Richard, Daniel Boone, Fletcher Steele, Jack Harlan, Jean Arp, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robin Karson, Photo Friday, and the Southeastern Plant Symposium
I ran across a fascinating old journal as I was researching this show – what I especially loved about it was the layout. If you want to copy it here’s what you do: Dedicate a page of your journal to each type of plant in your garden. Make some notes about the characteristics of the…
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