Posts Tagged ‘Frances Hodgson Burnett’
February 19, 2026 Andrew Dickson Murray, Alpheus Spring Packard Jr., Ruth Stout, The Living Soil Handbook, and Frances Hodgson Burnett
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 Some days, the garden is a refuge. And some days, it’s a classroom. Not the kind with desks — the kind with evidence.…
Read MoreFrances Hodgson Burnett: The Garden of Eden Behind Beloved Stories
The Whole World is a Garden November 24, 1849 Today is the birthday of the British-American writer and playwright Frances Hodgson Burnett. Frances was born in Britain. As a small girl, her family home backed up to property owned by the Earl of Derby. Frances remembered it as the “garden of Eden.” Frances’s father…
Read MoreNovember 24, 2020 The Zen Garden Chaise Lounge, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Darwin, Arlington Heights Garden Club, Vita Sackville West, The Beautiful Edible Garden by Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner, and Mosquitoes in November
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News This Chaise Lounge is Designed Like a Zen Garden—and There’s Even a Pond | Apartment Therapy | Jessica Wang Botanical History On This Day 1849…
Read MoreWhere You Tend a Rose
by Frances Hodgson Burnett Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Read MoreQueen of July: Poets and Writers in Praise of the Rose
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. A pink rose in fully bloom in July. July 5, 2020 Today’s garden is ruled by the undisputed queen of July—the…
Read MoreSeptember 18, 2019 The Secret Garden, Bernard McMahon, John M. Darby, Abel Aken Hunter, Prose on Autumn Denis Mackail, Straw Bale Gardens Complete by Joel Karsten, Winterizing Strawberry Beds, and the Mary Statue in South Natick
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue Last night, I shared the trailer for the remake of The Secret Garden, which just dropped. It is a visual feast for garden lovers everywhere. The…
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