Posts Tagged ‘Japanese Gardens’
May 6, 2022 Jean Senebier, Joseph Joubert, Sigmund Freud, Mirei Shigemori, The Layered Garden by David Culp, and Versailles
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 2022 Compost Awareness Week, a gardener’s gentle reminder that yesterday’s peel becomes tomorrow’s peony—celebrating the alchemy that turns waste into soil. 1742…
Read MoreThe Rebel’s Garden: Mirei Shigemori’s Horticultural Revolution
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 6, 1925 On this day, dear cultivators of beauty and tradition, we celebrate a pivotal moment in the annals of garden history. Picture, if you will, a young man of 29, standing…
Read MoreYûrin no Niwa: The Kimono-Inspired Garden’s Journey Through Time and Space in Kyoto
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 29, 1969 Dearest reader, On this day, a most enchanting garden was completed in Kyoto, Japan, known as Yûrin no Niwa (pronounced “Yer-EEN no nee-wah”). This garden, inspired by the elegant shape of…
Read MoreJ. Carter Brown on Art and Gardens: The Living Experience Beyond Pictures
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 8, 1934 Dearest reader, On this day, the world welcomed J. Carter Brown, an American luminary whose vision reshaped the way we encounter and cherish art. Born into a lineage of great…
Read MoreThe Plant Hunter’s Tale: Engelbert Kaempfer’s Botanical Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 16, 1651 My dearest garden enthusiasts, on this most remarkable day, we turn our attention to a true pioneer of botanical exploration, whose legacy blooms eternal in gardens across the globe. On…
Read MoreJapanese Garden Design by Marc Peter Keane
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Japanese Garden Design by Marc Peter Keane This book came out in 2017. In this book, the landscape architect Marc Peter Keane shares how gardens are designed in Japan. Marc moved to Japan in 1985, where he’s been teaching garden design and designing gardens. Marc does a masterful…
Read MoreSteve Jobs: Visionary Innovator Inspired by Kyoto Gardens
The Kyoto Gardens February 24, 1955 Today is the birthday of the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs. A lover of simplicity and elegance, Steve once said that, “The most sublime thing I’ve ever seen are the gardens around Kyoto.” To Steve, the ultimate Kyoto garden was the Saiho-ji (“Sy-ho-jee”) – and most people would agree…
Read MoreSaving the Sakura: Cherry Ingram’s Journey to Preserve Japan’s Blossoms
by Naoko Abe There, in a garden of a house near the Osakabe Hotel (“sah-KAH-bay”), towering above a tall wooden fence, stood a tree with narrow leaves and bunched clusters of double mauve-pink blossoms with close to 100 petals. Ingram’s immediate reaction was to work out how to spirit cuttings of the tree to England.…
Read MoreThe 1893 Chicago World’s Fair: When America Became a Garden
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 1, 1893 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts and history buffs, the gates of the Chicago World’s Fair swung open, unveiling a horticultural spectacle that would captivate over 27 million visitors…
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