Posts Tagged ‘Garden Photography’
Secret Gardeners by Victoria Summerley
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Secret Gardeners: Britain’s Creatives Reveal Their Private Sanctuaries by Victoria Summerley, with photography by Hugo Rittson-Thomas. This book offers private gardens rather than performances – spaces where public figures retreat into living, restorative landscapes. The gardens quiet the mind instead of amplifying it. In February, when energy can…
Read MoreNovember 08, 2024 Winter Preparation, William Copeland McCalla, Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, A New Cottage Garden by Mark Bolton, and Margaret Mitchell
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 1872 William Copeland McCalla, Canadian botanist and photographer, is born. McCalla would become one of Alberta’s most influential botanists, combining his passion for…
Read MoreThe Cottage Garden by Claus Dalby
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. The Cottage Garden by Claus Dalby This book came out on September 5, 2023, and the subtitle is simply perfect in its directness – there isn’t…
Read MoreJim Salyards and the Silent Spring at Filoli During COVID-19
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 25, 2020 Dearest reader, On this day, Jim Salyards, the dedicated Director of Horticulture at the grand Filoli Center, found himself wandering a silent paradise. The famed estate and its 16-acre formal…
Read MoreRichard Henry Martin Robinson: Master Gardener and Photographer Behind Hyde Hall’s Transformation
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 21, 1917 Dearest reader, On this day, we celebrate the birth of Richard Henry Martin Robinson, a gardener and professional horticultural photographer who earned his place among the foremost gardeners of his…
Read MoreSlow Down, Look Down: Chris Howell’s Celebration of Fallen Leaves
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 6, 2017 Dearest readers, On this day, Chris Howell—the dedicated gardener at Birmingham Botanical Gardens—captured a moment of simple seasonal beauty, sharing a photograph of autumn leaves carpeting a garden path. In…
Read MoreJames Clerk Maxwell: Science, Gardeners, and the First Color Photograph
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 17, 1861 James Clerk Maxwell, the prodigious Scottish scientist who captured the very first color photograph on this day, unveiling a tartan ribbon to the Royal Institution in London—a modest image that…
Read MorePeter Smithers: The Spy Who Loved Gardens
A Gardener with a Camera December 9, 1913 Today is the birthday of the lawyer, politician, diplomat, scholar, photographer, award-winning gardener, writer, and spy Peter Smithers. Peter learned to love gardening as a little boy. One of his earliest memories came when he was four years old and planted mustard seeds with his nanny. He…
Read MoreLewis Carroll’s Garden Inspirations: From Oxford to Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland Today is the birthday of the English mathematician and writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson also known as Lewis Carroll. Lewis had worked as a librarian at Christ Church College in Oxford. His office window had a view of the Dean’s Garden. Lewis wrote in his diary on the 25th of April in 1856…
Read MoreLouisa Boyd Yeomans King: The Fairy Godmother of American Gardening
The Well-Considered Garden Today is the anniversary of the death of the American Gardener and Garden writer Louisa Boyd Yeomans King. At the age of 26, she married a wealthy man from Chicago by the name of Frances King, which is why her pen name was Mrs. Francis King. Louisa learned to garden from her…
Read MoreFrances Benjamin Johnston: Pioneering American Photographer and Garden Documentarian
A Woman and Her Camera Today is the birthday of Frances Benjamin Johnston – who always went by Fannie. Fanny was a photographer, and she took portraits of many famous people during her career. Some of her famous subjects included Mark Twain, Susan B Anthony, Booker T. Washington, and Teddy Roosevelt. In 1897 the magazine…
Read MoreThe Late-Blooming Lens: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographic Revolution
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 11, 1815 Today is the birthday of Julia Margaret Cameron, the mother of photography, who was born on this day, in Calcutta. A woman who dared to begin her artistic journey at…
Read MoreCelebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Clark Botanic Garden with Amateur Photos from Local Residents
“Don’t forget to join them for “Sundays in the Garden,” a year-long lecture series of presentations to commemorate the big 5-0!” April 11, 2019 On this day, the Clark Botanic Garden celebrated its 50th Anniversary. As part of Clark Botanic Garden’s 50th Anniversary in Albertson, NY, the town is hosting a photo exhibit featuring photos…
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