Posts Tagged ‘garden journaling’
Seeds of Wisdom: Martha Ballard’s 19th Century Garden Journal
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 16, 1809 On this day, Martha Ballard, the remarkable herbalist and midwife of Hallowell, Maine, recorded her work in her meticulously kept journal. Oh, my dear gardeners, I know how much you…
Read MoreMargaret Leland Goldsmith: The Journalist Who Reflected on the Perils of Gardening Hue
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: May 4, 1894 The journalist, translator, and historical novelist Margaret Leland Goldsmith was born. Though she penned weighty works of history and biography, it is her light-hearted confession in a 1936 essay for Scribner’s Magazine that endears her forever to gardeners: a declaration of…
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