May 12, 2022 Charles-Joseph Lamoral, Edward Lear, Florence Nightingale, Andreas Schimper, P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home by P. Allen Smith, and Care Of Garden Hose by BF Goodrich in 1943

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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 1735 Charles-Joseph de Ligne fanned the flames of horticultural zeal, declaring he’d “inflame the whole world” with a taste for gardens—ever the…

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Limericks in the Garden: Edward Lear’s Horticultural Humor

Edward Lear in 1866

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 12, 1812 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of a most delightful and peculiar character – Edward Lear, the English artist, musician, and writer who would go on to…

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