The Quiet Revolutionary: Marian Coffin’s Garden Legacy

Marion Cruger Coffin

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 16, 1876 Dearest garden enthusiasts, while suffragettes and revolutionaries may not trumpet her name, today we celebrate a quiet revolutionary who transformed American landscape architecture through sheer determination and artistic brilliance. Young…

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The Painter’s Garden: Anna Massey Lea Merritt’s Natural Inspirations

Anna Lea Merritt, 1885

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 13, 1844 On this day, a most extraordinary soul entered our world – Anna Massey Lea Merritt, whose life would bloom like a carefully tended English garden, rich with both artistic achievement…

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