Posts Tagged ‘garden patience’
February 3, 2026 Gertrude Stein, Hilda Murrell, Rumi, The In the Garden Trilogy by Nora Roberts, and Adele Lewis Grant
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 February is a month that keeps its secrets close. The garden looks quiet now. Beds lie flat. Specimens above ground chilled into behaving…
Read MoreThe Unsung Season by Sydney Eddison
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: The Unsung Season: Gardens and Gardeners in Winter by Sydney Eddison Published in 1995, The Unsung Season is written for gardeners who live where winter is real. Sydney Eddison explores what happens when the garden goes quiet and how gardeners adapt. Some strap on snowshoes to check beds.…
Read MoreEdna St. Vincent Millay: The Poet Who Blossomed Among the Flowers
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 22, 1892 Dearest Gardeners, Today we celebrate the birth of Edna St. Vincent Millay (books by this author), that American lyrical poet and playwright whose verses have become as cherished as the very…
Read MoreWintersweet Wonders: Rosemary Verey’s Tale of Patience and Pruning
by Rosemary Verey One day 27 years ago, long before I became an enthusiastic gardener, my husband came home with a bush of wintersweet, given to him by an old lady from her garden. [The woman] said it would not flower for seven years and then forever after would do so generously. She was right.…
Read MoreThe Restless Heart of Spring: Frost, Twain, Rossetti, and Friends
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. Spring tulips surround a fountain in the garden. April 20, 2020 On this day, the garden seems caught between two minds—half…
Read MoreAlive Beneath the Snow: January’s Hidden Garden Work
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. The garden in winter. January 14, 2020 On this day, let us cast aside the common misconception that January is merely…
Read MoreSaint Bernard Tolomeo: Patron Saint of Patient Gardeners
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 21st every year… My darling garden companions, today is St. Bernard Tolomeo’s Day, the Patron Saint of Olive Growers. What a delicious coincidence for us dirt-under-the-fingernails types! This Tuscan treasure was born…
Read MoreHarold Glenn Borland: The Voice of Seasons and the Patience of Trees
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. Hal Borland May 14, 1900 On this day, Harold Glenn Borland was born — a man who became America’s quiet chronicler…
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