October 23, 2024 The Autumn Garden, William Casson, Annie Lorrain Smith, Neltje Blanchan, Katharine Stewart, Life in the Garden by Bunny Williams, and Ludwig Leichhardt

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 1796 William Casson, English botanist, seed merchant, and local historian, was born. 1854 Annie Lorrain Smith, British lichenologist and textbook author, was born.…

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Frost and Fantasy: Challenging Henry Bright’s Winter Garden Blues

Henry Arthur Bright

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. January 5, 1874 On this day, as frost kissed the dormant gardens of Lancashire, the English merchant and author Henry Arthur Bright put quill to paper, recording a rather bleak observation about winter…

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