Charles Joseph Sauriol: Moving, Memory, and the Moonlit Valley

Charles Joseph Sauriol in the Don.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 14, 1938 Dearest readers, Let us journey together into the quiet, moonlit world of Charles Joseph Sauriol—Canada’s treasured naturalist, author, and the tireless “Mr. Conservation” whose life’s work was preserving the wild…

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A Writer’s Eden: Virginia Woolf’s Day of Gardening Bliss

Virginia Woolf as a young woman.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 31, 1920 On this day, dear gardening enthusiasts, we find ourselves transported to a quaint corner of England, where a 37-year-old Virginia Woolf, that luminary of literature, found herself elbow-deep in the…

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