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April 8, 2026 John Claudius Loudon, Thomas Drummond, Barbara Kingsolver, Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies by Maria Noël Groves, and Georgiana Molloy

The Daily Gardener Podcast Album Cover with a pot of rosemary - the herb for remembrance - beckoning gardeners to remember to listen to the show. Updated September 2025.

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today’s Show Notes April has settled in now. And the flowering shrubs are beginning to prove it. Magnolia first. Those thick, velvet buds holding their breath…

How Cornelia Vanderbilt’s Wedding Day was Saved by Biltmore’s Gardeners

“In 2001, the Biltmore commemorated the 75th anniversary of the wedding with a month-long celebration among 2,500 blooming roses in June.” April 29, 1924 Today is the wedding day of Cornelia Vanderbilt. This year (2021) marks her 95th wedding anniversary. When Cornelia married British nobility, the diplomat John Cecil, the wedding flowers had been…

April 29, 2021 Forsythia, Hunter’s Home Diary, Agnes Chase, Toni Morrison on spring, Life Among the Texas Flora by Minetta Altgelt Goyne, and Cornelia Vanderbilt

March 1, 2021 Thirty Irresistible Plants for Butterflies, Catharina Dörrien, Lenore Mulets, Alice and Forsythia, Fearless Gardening by Loree Bohl, and a Little Rose History with Fun Facts

Forsythia’s Namesake: A Birthday Tribute to William Forsyth

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 25, 1804 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, we celebrate the birth of a most remarkable Scottish botanist, one William Forsyth. A man of extraordinary vision and, dare I say, peculiar tastes…

Carl Peter Thunberg: The Swedish Botanist Who Unlocked Japan’s Secret Flora

The Father of South African Botany Today is the anniversary of the death of the father of South African botany, the botanist Carl Peter Thunberg, who died on this day in 1828. As fellow Swedes, Carl Linnaeus had taught Thunberg, and Linnaeus encouraged him to continue his work by visiting other parts of Europe. Eventually,…

Carl Peter Thunberg: The Botanical Spy Who Loved Plants

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 8, 1828 My darling green-thumbed companions, today marks the anniversary of when the esteemed botanist Carl Peter Thunberg departed this mortal garden in 1828, leaving behind a legacy as verdant and sprawling…

William Forsyth: The Botanical Pioneer Who Turned Failure into Flowering Fame

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 25, 1804 On this day, dear garden friends, William Forsyth entered this world—a Scottish botanist whose legacy blooms bright as the yellow flowers that would one day bear his name. One might…

The Vanderbilt wedding bloom rescue: How Biltmore’s gardeners saved a roaring 20s celebration

Cornelia Vanderbilt Wedding Party with Huge Flowers.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 29, 1869 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of Agnes Chase – a woman of diminutive stature yet possessed of such formidable determination that she quite literally changed how…