November 19, 2024 November Gardens Between Activity and Rest, Helen Hunt Jackson, Danske Dandridge, Julia Wilmotte Henshaw, Outside In by Sean A. Pritchard, and Amy Baik Lee’s Garden Closing

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 1854 Danske [“DAN-sker”] Dandridge, poet, historian, and garden writer, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1937 Julia Wilmotte [will-MOT] Henshaw, Canadian botanist, geographer,…

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The Lexicographer’s Garden: Noah Webster’s Verdant Vocabulary

Noah Webster

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 1, 1785 On this day, dear readers, we find ourselves in the company of one Noah Webster (a veritable library awaits the curious), a man whose name has become synonymous with the…

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Fruit Trees for Every Garden by Orin Martin

Fruit Trees for Every Garden by Orin Martin

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Fruit Trees for Every Garden by Orin Martin  This book came out late in 2019, and the subtitle is An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus, and More. Orin is the long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz.…

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Verses from the Orchard: The Garden Poetry of James Edwin Campbell

James Edwin Campbell, 1892

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 28, 1867 On this resplendent autumn day, we turn our thoughts to a master of horticultural verse, James Edwin Campbell who was born on this day. Campbell’s poetic eye captured the ephemeral…

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The Peach Tree Incident: When a Botanist’s Paradise Became Perdition

Henry Hurd Rusby

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 13, 1916 On this day in horticultural history, we encounter a tale that serves as a rather dramatic reminder that the passion for protecting one’s garden can occasionally venture into decidedly unfortunate…

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