My Garden by Jacqueline van der Kloet

My Garden by Jacqueline van der Kloet

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: My Garden by Jacqueline van der Kloet Published in 2025, this book follows a single garden through the months of the year, offering continuity rather than transformation. Jacqueline van der Kloet is known for her naturalistic style and her masterful use of bulbs layered to move light through…

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People With Dirty Hands by Robin Chotzinoff

People With Dirty Hands by Robin Chotzinoff

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: People With Dirty Hands by Robin Chotzinoff Published in 1996, People With Dirty Hands is built not from instructions, but from portraits — of gardeners, gardens, and the moments that keep people returning to the soil. Chotzinoff, a journalist by training, reveals why people continue gardening long after…

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A Year of Garden-Inspired Living by Linda Vater

A Year of Garden-Inspired Living by Linda Vater

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: A Year of Garden-Inspired Living: Season by Season by Linda Vater This book invites gardeners to live seasonally even when the garden is quiet. Filled with ideas for bringing the feeling of the garden into daily life, it follows the rhythm of the year rather than the pressure…

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November 19, 2024 November Gardens Between Activity and Rest, Helen Hunt Jackson, Danske Dandridge, Julia Wilmotte Henshaw, Outside In by Sean A. Pritchard, and Amy Baik Lee’s Garden Closing

The Daily Gardener Podcast Album Cover with a pot of rosemary - the herb for remembrance - beckoning gardeners to remember to listen to the show. Updated September 2025.

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 1854 Danske [“DAN-sker”] Dandridge, poet, historian, and garden writer, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1937 Julia Wilmotte [will-MOT] Henshaw, Canadian botanist, geographer,…

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The Garden That I Love: Alfred Austin on Gardens as Personal Autobiography

A charming red house with a sloped metal roof sits surrounded by lush green grass, blooming bushes, and flowering trees under a partly cloudy blue sky.

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. …

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Nature’s Ordinary Wonders: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps on Mindful Botany

Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, a prominent 19th-century American educator and author. She is known for her significant contributions to women's education and her writings on science, particularly botany.

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. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, a prominent 19th-century American educator and author. She is known for her significant contributions to women’s education…

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