May 12, 2022 Charles-Joseph Lamoral, Edward Lear, Florence Nightingale, Andreas Schimper, P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home by P. Allen Smith, and Care Of Garden Hose by BF Goodrich in 1943

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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 1735 Charles-Joseph de Ligne fanned the flames of horticultural zeal, declaring he’d “inflame the whole world” with a taste for gardens—ever the…

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Garden Hose Instructions: A Victory Garden Wartime Nine-Point Plan

A garden hose on the lawn in early autumn.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 12, 1943 The Belvidere Daily Republican offered home gardeners a pragmatic sermon on hose-keeping during wartime rubber shortages—nine sensible steps to keep the water flowing when vegetables were a civic duty. If…

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