Posts Tagged ‘Garden Tools’
Blooms and Biceps: The Joyful Workout of Gardening
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 6, 2022 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate National Garden Exercise Day, a delightful occasion that marries the pleasures of horticulture with the virtues of physical exertion. As one who has…
Read MoreCharles Lathrop Pack and the 1918 War Garden Battle Against Baseball
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 30, 1918 Dearest reader, On this day, the Oregon Daily Journal of Portland offered readers more than just their usual scoop: a sharp rebuke aimed squarely at baseball club owners planning to…
Read MoreJanuary’s Call to Garden: Wartime Wisdom from the Ministry of Agriculture
by Ministry of Agriculture, “Dig For Victory” Pamphlet, January 1945 January is a time when you should be thinking and planning, ordering your seed potatoes, vegetable seeds, fertilizers, and so on, and making sure that your tools are in good order and that you are ready to begin gardening in real earnest next month, or…
Read MoreClarence Elliott and the Legacy of Six Hills
The Founder of Six Hills November 3, 1881 Today is the birthday of the English garden writer, plant explorer, renowned nurseryman, alpine specialist, and a founding member of the Alpine Garden Society, Clarence Elliott. Clarence had a remarkable career, and he cast an enormous shadow from his legendary nursery in Stevenage called Six Hills.…
Read MoreWhispers of Summer Gardens: Voices on Labor, Love, and Life in the Earth
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. Lilies and delphinium in the summer garden. July 8, 2020 July is a month that tests the gardener’s endurance—when the afternoons…
Read MoreBones of the Land: Wyeth’s Solitude and Hirshfield’s Garden Task
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. Bones of the winter landscape. November 20, 2019 On this day, as autumn deepens and the garden sheds its lush disguises,…
Read MoreThe Night Gardener: How Edward Budding Revolutionized Our Lawns
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 22, 1830 My dearest garden comrades, on this most auspicious day in horticultural history, a revolution sprouted from the ingenious mind of one Edward Beard Budding – the very first lawn mower…
Read MoreIron Revolution: When Charles Newbold’s Plow Changed Gardening Forever
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 26, 1797 On this day, our agricultural history was forever altered when one Charles Newbold, a man of considerable foresight and iron determination, patented the first cast-iron plow. Yes, dear readers, while…
Read MoreThe Flaming Legacy of Carl Nyberg: How the Blowtorch Became a Gardener’s Secret Weapon
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 28, 1858 Today marks the birth of Carl Richard Nyberg (May 28, 1858 – 1939), a Swedish inventor whose blowtorch creation would eventually lead to that most satisfying of garden implements –…
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