Posts Tagged ‘horticultural writing’
William Cobbett: The Gardener’s Voice for Rural England and Agrarian Reform
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 9, 1763 Dearest reader, On this day, we celebrate the birth of William Cobbett, an English writer, member of Parliament, and devoted farmer whose passion for the countryside shaped both his politics…
Read MoreKatharine White: The New Yorker’s Garden Critic and Literary Gardener
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 1, 1958 Dearest reader, On this day, The New Yorker published a groundbreaking garden catalog review by none other than Katharine S. White (books about this person), a gardener and garden writer…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreGeorge Washington Cable’s Garden Wisdom: From Hummingbirds to the “Joyous Gard”
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 12, 1844 Dearest reader, On this day, George Washington Cable was born—a son of New Orleans who would become celebrated as the first modern southern writer. Though a German Protestant by heritage,…
Read MoreThe Wise Wit: Geoffry Charlesworth’s Garden Observations
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 29, 1920 Today, we honor the birth of Geoffry B. Charlesworth, whose wit and wisdom continue to delight those of us who recognize our own horticultural obsessions in his words. Consider his…
Read MoreThrough the Gardener’s Eye: The Enduring Wisdom of Scientist-Artist Marjorie Harris
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 15, 1937 My dearest garden enthusiasts, how fortuitous that we should gather on this most auspicious day to celebrate the birth of one of gardening’s most eloquent voices. On this day in…
Read MoreThe Power of Words: Beth Chatto on Writing Plants Into Life
by Beth Chatto Since before Christmas, I have been nibbling, in odd moments, at my new catalog. I try to write word pictures of plants, which might make them irresistible. When I began the nursery twenty years ago, I issued a very small list with descriptions of plants, as I saw them, in place of…
Read MoreA patchwork of gardens: Amy Stewart on carrying plants through a lifetime
by Amy Stewart Like a chain letter, I will take a plant from this garden to the next and from the next garden to the one after that, and so on, until someday I am an old woman nurturing along with a patchwork quilt of a garden, with cuttings and scraps from every garden I…
Read MoreJane Webb Loudon: Pioneering Victorian Garden Writer and Early Science Fiction Author
A Science Fiction Pioneer Today is the birthday of Jane Webb, who married the prolific writer of all things gardening: John Claudius Loudon. Together they became magnificent partners in the world of botanical writing and publishing. Jane was an extraordinary person. She was a fantastic writer in her own right, but she also possessed an…
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