Posts Tagged ‘Fall Color’
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.…
Read MoreOctober 12, 2021 Top Trees For Fall Color, Berthe Hoola van Nooten, George Washington Cable, Cecil Frances Alexander, Terri Irwin, Carving Out a Living on the Land by Emmet Van Driesche, and Beatrix Potter
Today in botanical history, we celebrate a Dutch botanical illustrator, a writer from New Orleans, and a hymn writer – who wrote over 400 hymns. We’ll hear an excerpt from Terri Irwin – just fabulous – wife of the late great Steve Irwin. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about Living on the…
Read MoreCelebrate Colorful Fall Favorites with Garden Designer and Writer Kelly Norris
“My next find [is] a colony of dwarf fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii). These happy companions to daphnes and rhododendrons look sumptuous this time of year..” October 8, 2009 On this day, botanist Kelly Norris wrote a post about the colors of fall and his favorite plants in a post called Candy Shop. Here’s an excerpt: Today…
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