How Nell Gwyn Won Bestwood Park: A Garden History Tale

Unknown woman thought to be Nell Gwynn by Peter Lely

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 14, 1687 Today in garden history, we remember Eleanor “Nell” Gwyn, who died at the age of 37 in her Pall Mall house in London. Known as “pretty, witty Nell” by diarist…

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From Wild Gardens to City Planning: Warren Manning’s Living Legacy

Warren Manning as a young man

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 7, 1860 Today, we celebrate Warren H. Manning, a visionary landscape architect whose birth was commemorated by his father with the planting of an elm tree – a fitting tribute for a…

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From Muckraker to Garden Maker: Ida Tarbell at Twin Oaks

Ida Tarbell portrait with flowers colorized and enhanced

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 5, 1857  On this day, Ida Tarbell was born – a woman who would become known for exposing Standard Oil’s monopolistic practices but who found her greatest peace tending to her beloved…

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The Pink Lady of Woodhills: Cora Older’s Legacy

Cora Baggerly Older as a young woman

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 24, 1875 And it was on this day in 1875, my dear friend, that a remarkable woman who would come to be known as “The Pink Lady” was born in Clyde, New…

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Mount Vernon’s Green-Thumbed Guardians: The MVLA Story

Ann Pamela Cunningham

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 2, 1874 On this day, dear gardening enthusiasts, we find ourselves transported to a moment of great significance in the preservation of America’s horticultural heritage. It was on this very date that…

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Renaissance Revolutionary: Lorenz Scholz’s Medical Garden Legacy

Title Page of Aphorismorum Medicinalium by Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 20, 1552 Dearest garden enthusiasts, today we mark the birth of a true Renaissance rebel – Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau, who dared to grow “deadly” potatoes in his garden while fighting plague…

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The Quiet Revolutionary: Marian Coffin’s Garden Legacy

Marion Cruger Coffin

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 16, 1876 Dearest garden enthusiasts, while suffragettes and revolutionaries may not trumpet her name, today we celebrate a quiet revolutionary who transformed American landscape architecture through sheer determination and artistic brilliance. Young…

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The Garden Revolutionary: Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell’s Natural Legacy

Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell by Clemens Zimmermann, after 1808

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 13, 1750 On this day, my dearest fellow gardening enthusiasts, we celebrate the birth of a true revolutionary in the art of landscape design – Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell. And what a…

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The Gift That Changed Science: When Henslow Sent Darwin Around the World

Charles Darwin

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 12, 1831 Dearest readers and garden enthusiasts, gather round for I have the most delicious morsel of scientific history to share with you today! On this day, a most pivotal exchange took…

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Carol Klein Unveils Garden Treasures: Gravetye Manor’s Wild Beauty Beckons

Carol Klein

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 18, 2019 Oh, my dear gardening enthusiasts! What a delightful piece of news I must share with you today. Our beloved Carol Klein—that paragon of horticultural wisdom—has graced our television screens with…

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President Harding’s Historic Radio Debut and Madame Curie’s Garden Gift

President Harding

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 14, 1922 It was on this day President Warren G. Harding’s voice graced the airwaves, becoming the first presidential voice to be broadcast over that marvelous new invention—the radio. One cannot help…

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