Posts Tagged ‘garden memoir’
March 23, 2026 John Bartram, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Arabella Elizabeth Roupell, Down the Garden Path by Beverley Nichols, and William Taylor
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 Today is about the twisty lives of gardeners. A garden history icon. A founding gardener with a ruined reputation. A botanical artist discovered…
Read MoreAround the House and In the Garden by Dominique Browning
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Around the House and In the Garden by Dominique Browning This book came out in 2002, and the subtitle is A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and…
Read MoreSeedtime and Harvest by Christie Purifoy
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Seedtime and Harvest by Christie Purifoy This book came out on March 5, 2024, and the subtitle is How Gardens Grow Roots, Connection, Wholeness, and Hope. As…
Read MoreColleen McCullough: From Thornbirds to Norfolk Island Gardens
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: June 1, 1937 On this day, we raise both teacup and trowel to celebrate the birthday of Colleen McCullough (“muh-CULL-ick”), the fiercely brilliant Australian novelist—and gardener at heart—whose imagination forever entwined nature, love, and literature. To friends, she was simply “Col,” an unpretentious genius…
Read MoreJamaica Kincaid: The Gardener’s Voice in Literature and Life
Dreams of Gardeners May 25, 1949 Today is the birthday of the Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Jamaica Kincaid born Elaine Potter Richardson. Jamaica Kincaid is a gardener and popular garden writer. Her book Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya offers many wonderful excerpts. And here, she discusses the dreams of gardeners – and how…
Read MoreA patchwork of gardens: Amy Stewart on carrying plants through a lifetime
by Amy Stewart Like a chain letter, I will take a plant from this garden to the next and from the next garden to the one after that, and so on, until someday I am an old woman nurturing along with a patchwork quilt of a garden, with cuttings and scraps from every garden I…
Read MoreThe Garden That I Love: Alfred Austin on Gardens as Personal Autobiography
by Alfred Austin A garden that you make yourself becomes associated with your personal history and that of your friends, interwoven with your tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest, autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like. …
Read MoreBeverley Nichols at Merry Hall: Geraniums, Peonies, and Garden Philosophy
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. Beverley Nichols (1898-1983). He was an English author and playwright known for his diverse literary contributions, particularly his gardening books. September…
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