Jane Austen Archives

February 17, 2021 Stickiness as a Plant Weapon, Rudolph Jacob Camerarius, Reginald Farrer, The Over-Nurturer Gardening Style, The Earth Moved by Amy Stewart, and the Birth Flowers of February

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Jane Austen’s Letter to her Sister Cassandra and a Closer Look at the Beautiful Laburnum

“We know from Jane’s letters to her sister Cassandra that gardens brought her joy and were also regulating.” February 8, 1807 Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra. Jane loved gardens. She had a heart for ornamentals, herbs, and kitchen gardening. And her family always had a garden – growing their food and beautifying their…

February 8, 2021 The Gardening Doctor, John Ruskin, Henry Walter Bates, Winter Gardening Attire, Concrete Garden Projects by Camilla Arvidsson and Malin Nilsson and Jane Austen’s 1807 Letter to Her Sister Cassandra

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 The Gardening Doctor | Words and Herbs Botanical History On This Day 1819 Birth of John Ruskin, the Victorian English art critic, thinker, and philanthropist.…

Jane Austen: Literary Gardener of the Regency Era

Garden Love Today is the anniversary of the death of the author and gardener Jane Austen. Jane loved gardens. She had a heart for ornamentals, herbs, and kitchen gardening. And, her family always had a garden – growing their food and beautifying their homes with flowers. In every one of her books, Jane included gardens.…

July 18, 2020 A Daily Practice to Improve Garden Skills, Gilbert White, Jane Austen, Frederick Law Olmsted, Emilia Hazelip, The Gardener Poem, The Solitary Bees by Bryan N. Danforth, Robert L. Minckley, John L. Neff, and Frances Fawcett, and The Botanist by Maxfield Parrish

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 This Five-Minute Exercise Will Make You a Better Gardener | Mary-Kate Mackey “Phyllis Helland is a friend of mine who is a home gardener, and…

Cultivating Prose and Plots: Jane Austen’s Garden Legacy

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 18, 1817 On this day, dear readers, we mark the solemn anniversary of Miss Jane Austen’s departure from our mortal garden. A most remarkable cultivator of both prose and plants, our dear…

July 18, 2019 Growing Chervil, Gilbert White, Jane Austen, Frederick Law Olmsted, Eleanor Sinclair-Rhode, A Southern Garden by Elizabeth Lawrence, Irrigation Check, Maxfield Parrish and The Botanist

Have you tried growing the herb chervil? Chervil tastes similar to tarragon – it’s sometimes called gourmet parsley. It has a beautiful fern-like leaf, which turns red in the fall, which is another plus. August is a beautiful time to sow chervil – so keep that in mind. The 1884 Dictionary of English Names of…