Posts Tagged ‘Garden Rooms’
Breaking Ground: Ellen Biddle Shipman’s Garden Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 5, 1869 Today we celebrate the birth of Ellen Biddle Shipman, a woman who found her voice in the whispers of flowers and her strength in the structure of garden walls. Ellen…
Read MoreLife in the Garden By Bunny Williams
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. Life in the Garden by Bunny Williams And now, my dear garden enthusiasts, let us turn to today’s book recommendation, one that I believe deserves a…
Read MoreLiterary Gardens: How Edith Wharton Designed with Words and Flowers
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 1, 1937 My dear readers, on this most peculiar day, the eminent American authoress Edith Wharton suffered a rather inconvenient heart attack while gracing the country estate of her friend and co-author…
Read MoreElite English Garden Designer David Stevens’ Advice to American Gardeners: Break the Garden into Rooms
“It is important, especially for North Americans with large, open backyards, to break down the garden space into a series of smaller rooms. If you see everything at once, it becomes uninteresting.” February 15, 1992 On this day, The Vancouver Sun shared a story by Steve Whysall called “Break Outdoor Spaces into Series of Small…
Read MoreThe Soul of a Garden: Commemorating Ryan Gainey
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 29, 2016 On this day, dear readers, we mark the anniversary of Ryan Gainey’s departure from our earthly gardens. The landscape designer extraordinaire left this world in a manner both tragic and…
Read MoreLessons From Gordon Hayward: Garden Rooms and Democratic Design
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 6, 2019 On this day, dear readers, the gardening cognoscenti of Westminster have been granted a most delightful opportunity. This very evening, from half-past six until eight o’clock, the esteemed Gordon Hayward…
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