John Ruskin

John Ruskin

“Nature is Painting” February 8, 1819 Today is the birthday of the leading Victorian-era English art critic, watercolorist, thinker, and philanthropist John Ruskin. John is responsible for some beautiful thoughts and quotes about the natural world. With regard to gardening, John wrote: “The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it,…

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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

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Today we celebrate an English critic who wrote some of our most beautiful quotes about gardens, nature, and flowers. We’ll also learn about a dedicated English naturalist who lived in the Rainforest for eleven years and provided ample proof of Darwin’s theory of evolution. We hear words from a gardener and nursery owner about gardening…

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August 7, 2019 Queen Anne’s Lace, Andreas Marggraff, Henry Perrine, MS Swaminathan, Henry David Thoreau, John Ruskin, The Evening Garden by Peter Loewer, Mulch, and Lucy Cranwell of New Zealand

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There’s that lovely saying that goes something like, “One man’s weed is another man’s wildflower.” This is especially true in the case of Queen Anne’s Lace.   In the Facebook group for the show, listener Danny Perkins shared how much he enjoyed allowing Queen Anne’s Lace to reign all over in his garden. I feel…

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Summer is Delicious

Summer is Delicious

by John Ruskin Summer is delicious; rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. John Ruskin

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