Henry Arthur Bright Archives

Henry Arthur Bright’s Lancashire Garden:October 24, 1874

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 24, 1874 For today’s Botanic Spark, I’d like to share a diary entry from exactly 150 years ago. Henry Arthur Bright [BRAYT] was penning his thoughts in “A Year in a Lancashire…

February 9, 2022 Samuel Thompson, Henry Arthur Bright, Alice Walker, The Wardian Case by Luke Keogh, and Amy Lawrence Lowell

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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 Botanical History On This Day 1758 On this day, Carl Linneaus, father of modern taxonomy, shared a deeply personal letter revealing his struggles with age, depression, and…

A Year in a Lancashire Garden: The Quiet Charm and Forgotten Treasures of Henry Arthur Bright

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: February 9, 1830 Dearest reader, On this day, a contemplative soul came into the world—Henry Arthur Bright, an English gardener and writer whose very life seems entwined with the rhythm of the seasons and the gentle art of cultivation. Henry devoted himself to chronicling…

May 4, 2021 The Crown Imperial, Mary Sutherland, Audrey Hepburn, Up Shone May, Making the Most of Shade by Larry Hodgson and Henry Arthur Bright on May

Henry Arthur Bright’s Observations on Lilac-Tide

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 4, 1879 Dearest readers, Let us journey back through time to a May long ago, when Henry Arthur Bright took pen to page on this day in his beloved A Year in…

A Diary Entry from English Gardener Henry Arthur Bright in Praise of Violets

“Hepaticas I have tried over and over again, and they always fail.” March 25, 1874 Today, the English merchant and author Henry Arthur Bright recorded an update about his spring garden in his popular diary-turned-book, A Year in a Lancashire Garden. Again, we have had frost and snow, and this time, it has done us…

Henry Arthur Bright: The Gardener Who Penned A Year in a Lancashire Garden

A Year in Lancashire Garden February 9, 1830 Today is the birthday of the English gardener and writer Henry Arthur Bright. As an adult, Henry began a diary, which became a book called A Year in a Lancashire Garden. Henry’s book is one of the most beloved garden biographies of the nineteenth century and inspired…

February 9, 2021 The Dependable Jade Plant, Henry Arthur Bright, William Griffith, Bark and pH, Cooking with Flowers by Miche Bacher, and Winter Garden Chores from 1889

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Jade Plants Are the Low-Maintenance Houseplants Everyone Should Know About | MarthaStewart.com Botanical History On This Day 1830 Birth of Henry Arthur Bright, English gardener…

Frost and Fantasy: Challenging Henry Bright’s Winter Garden Blues

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. January 5, 1874 On this day, as frost kissed the dormant gardens of Lancashire, the English merchant and author Henry Arthur Bright put quill to paper, recording a rather bleak observation about winter…

January 5, 2021 How to Make a White Berry Wreath, the Glastonbury Thorn, Robert More, Henry Arthur Bright, Hyacinth Vases, A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane Hunter, and How to Wassail Apple Trees

Henry Arthur Bright’s “A Year in a Lancashire Garden”: Embracing the Challenges and Delights of Gardening

A Year in a Lancashire Garden On this day in 1873, the gardener and writer Henry Arthur Bright began a diary, which would become known as the book “A Year in a Lancashire Garden” – one of the most beloved garden biographies of the nineteenth century. Bright’s book would inspire future garden writers like Eleanor…