Posts Tagged ‘garden stories’
How Nell Gwyn Won Bestwood Park: A Garden History Tale
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 14, 1687 Today in garden history, we remember Eleanor “Nell” Gwyn, who died at the age of 37 in her Pall Mall house in London. Known as “pretty, witty Nell” by diarist…
Read MoreThe Tree That Kept Time: Ludwig Leichhardt’s Last Garden
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 23, 1813 It was on this day in 1813, as autumn leaves were turning in Prussia, that Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt was born. And oh, what a reminder his story is of…
Read MoreFrom Seed to Celebration: Jane Green’s Zucchini Chronicles
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 7, 2013 On this day, dear fellow cultivators of the earth, we find ourselves privy to a most delightful tale of horticultural triumph. J ane Green, a gardener of seemingly boundless enthusiasm,…
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