Posts Tagged ‘Indoor Gardening’
Outside In by Sean A. Pritchard
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Outside In by Sean A. Pritchard This book came out in 2024, and the subtitle is A Year of Growing and Displaying. In this enchanting debut,…
Read MoreThe Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Cacti and Succulents by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Paul Rees
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Outside In by Sean A. Pritchard This book came out in 2024, and the subtitle is A Year of Growing and Displaying. In this enchanting debut,…
Read MoreNovember 04, 2024 Last Call for Spring Bulbs, John Bradby Blake, William Rickatson Dykes, Harry Ferguson, My Favorite Plant by Jamaica Kincaid, and Saving Summer with a Windowsill Garden
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Read MoreSaving Summer: The Indoor Garden Encore
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 4, 1994 On this day, garden writer Barbara Pleasant finished writing her article about extending summer’s joy through winter by bringing our beloved bedding plants indoors. The article appeared in the Montgomery…
Read MoreOctober 24, 2024 The Great Indoor Houseplant Migration, Marianne North, A Vermont October Snow Story, Margaret Owen, A Life in the Garden by Barbara Damrosch, and Henry Arthur Bright’s October Garden Musings
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Read MoreArthur Symons & The Whispering Glasshouse
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 28, 1865 Dearest Gardeners, On this day, the world was given Arthur William Symons (books by this author)—poet, critic, and man of letters—whose pen could turn even the dripping panes of a…
Read MoreA Bouquet of Books: Garden Reading for Every Season
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 2, 1975 Dearest Gardeners, On this day, The New York Times shared a list of new gardening books in its “Around the Garden” segment. Some bright newcomers have been added to the trowel‐watering can library.…
Read MorePaul Ecke Sr.: The Father of the Poinsettia and Christmas Flower Marketing
Mr. Poinsettia January 28, 1895 Today is the birthday of the nurseryman known as “Mr. Poinsettia,” Paul Ecke Sr. (“Eck-EE”), and he was born in Magdeburg, Germany. Paul and his family immigrated to the United States in 1906. And when Paul took over his father’s nursery business located on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood in the…
Read MoreFebruary Gold: Katharine S. White’s Delight in Early Blooming Bulbs
by Katharine S. White I shall never desert the bulbs, though, and last winter, I think I got more pleasure from a pot of February Gold daffodils than from anything else I raised unless it was my pots of freesias. February Gold, which is a medium-small, all-yellow narcissus of the cyclamen type, for me proved…
Read MoreWintersweet Wonders: Rosemary Verey’s Tale of Patience and Pruning
by Rosemary Verey One day 27 years ago, long before I became an enthusiastic gardener, my husband came home with a bush of wintersweet, given to him by an old lady from her garden. [The woman] said it would not flower for seven years and then forever after would do so generously. She was right.…
Read MoreHyacinths in Glass: Mandy Kirkby on a Victorian Winter Delight
by Mandy Kirby The January 1860 garden column of the famous fashion magazine the New Monthly Belle Assemblee recommended the Hyacinth Bottle and Flower Support as being ideal for growing [Hyacinths] indoors. The slender bottle with bulbous base was nothing new; hyacinths were often grown in water, not soil, in these small glass vases, which…
Read MoreA Wild Winter Garden Indoors: Susan Tyler Hitchcock on Foraging Through the Cold
by Susan Tyler Hitchcock Most weeds don’t make it through winter. They need warm rain and steady sun. Frozen soil inhibits root growth; snowfalls discourage sprouts. Even watercress, which usually positions itself in flowing water, gets hurt by a freeze. If you live in an area where the snow falls over several months, …
Read More“Take a Plant, Not a Pill”: The Revolutionary Garden Therapy of 1977
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 10, 1977 On this day, the horticultural world witnessed a most audacious declaration that plants—yes, mere foliage—might serve as an alternative to pharmaceutical interventions for one’s mental distress. One can hardly contain…
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