George Glenny Archives

The Horticultural Hornet’s Final Sting: Remembering George Glenny

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 17, 1874 On this day, the infamous “horticultural hornet” George Glenny buzzed his last at the impressive age of 83, leaving behind a garden landscape forever altered by his sharp-tongued influence. One…

May 17, 2019 Ready to Garden, Botticelli, George Glenny, Requirements for Plant Explorers, Bernadette Cozart, Rocky Mountain Field Botany Course, Market Garden Workshop at Green Cauldron Farm, James Hunt, The Golden Circle, Hal Borland, and another Photo Friday in the Garden

Are you feeling it yet? The urge to get going in the garden? I was reading a book from 1915 about spring, it started this way, “If you are not dead, you will feel the sap start within you…” Everyone comes to the garden in their own time. If you’re not yet ready to put…

Garden Writer George Glenny’s Farwell Column

“And from observation of the doings of the most successful amateurs, I had become a very successful grower of the auricula, the tulip, ranunculus, polyanthus, and other florists’ flowers.” May 24, 1874 On this day, Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper shared George Glenny’s obituary ten days after his passing. For 25 years, George’s garden column had faithfully…