Posts Tagged ‘Jan Johnsen’
Heaven is a Garden by Jan Johnsen
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Heaven is a Garden by Jan Johnsen This book came out in 2014, and the subtitle is Designing Serene Spaces for Inspiration and Reflection. Jan is one of my favorite modern garden writers. Jan is a fellow garden geek and has logged forty years in garden design -…
Read MoreApril 8, 2021 Ten Quick Spring Garden Chores, John Claudius London, Mary Pickford, Lilja Roger’s Crocus Poem, Heaven is a Garden by Jan Johnsen and the Betty Ford Alpine Garden
Today we celebrate one of the most prolific garden writers of the 1800s. We’ll also learn about a Hollywood legend who ate roses… We hear an adorable poem about the crocus. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that helps us make our own little piece of heaven here on earth in the form…
Read MoreGardentopia by Jan Johnsen
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Gardentopia by Jan Johnsen This book came out in 2019, and in it, Jan encourages us to ditch the drudgery, darlings, and cultivate our own Eden! Is your backyard a lackluster landscape, more dust bowl than a dazzling oasis? Fear not, fellow flora fanatics! Jan Johnsen, the Martha…
Read MoreMay 22, 2019 A Gardener’s Bedtime Ritual, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Florence Meier Chase, Victor Hugo, Gardentopia, Jan Johnsen, Living Mulch, and the death of Conan Doyle
Here’s a gardener’s bedtime ritual for this time of year: Take sandpaper or a nail file and nick those nasturtium seeds before you soak them overnight; then sow them outside. They grow well in poor soil. The leaves and flowers are edible and are great in salads. Brevities #OTD It’s the birthday…
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