The Palm Queen’s Legacy: Remembering Gloria Galeano

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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 22, 1958 On this day, the botanical world was graced with the birth of Gloria Galeano, Colombia’s answer to botanical royalty and rightfully crowned “The Queen of the Palms” – a title…

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April 22, 2019 Perennials, Tasha Tudor, Earth Day, August Wilhelm Eichler, Gloria Galeano, William Bartram Journal, Kew’s Gardener’s Guide to House Plants, Planting Trees and Shrubs, the Eichler Treasure Trove, and Peter Hirsch

The Daily Gardener Podcast Album Cover with a pot of rosemary - the herb for remembrance - beckoning gardeners to remember to listen to the show. Updated September 2025.

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee  Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community Monologue Children’s book writer and illustrator Tasha Tudor (Books by this author) once said, It’s exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you’ve had for…

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