May 25, 2022 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Miss Amanda Palmer, George Orwell, The Ripley Garden, Potted History by Catherine Horwood, and Louisa Yeomans King

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Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1803 Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet. After graduating from Harvard, Ralph decided to go by his…

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The Thing I Care Most About

The Thing I Care About Most

by George Orwell Outside my work, the thing I care most about is gardening, especially vegetable gardening. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. George Orwell

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The Plant is Blind

George Orwell

by George Orwell The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. George Orwell

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Beauty is meaningless

Beauty is Meaningless

by George Orwell So often like this, in lonely places in the forest, he would come upon something — bird, flower, tree — beautiful beyond all words, if there had been a soul with whom to share it. Beauty is meaningless until it is shared. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the…

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George Orwell

George Orwell

A Breath of Fresh Air And it was on this day in 1903 that the author George Orwell was born.   Over the past few decades, Orwell’s diaries have been made public. Across from his entry for October 3, 1946, there is a map for a fruit and vegetable garden. Orwell hoped to set up…

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