Katharine White Archives

November 05, 2024 Arranging Flowers and Planting Bulbs, Humphry Marshall, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Garden Favorites by Warren Schultz, Rebecca W. Atwater and Rick Darke, and Ida Tarbell

The Daily Gardener Podcast Album Cover with a pot of rosemary - the herb for remembrance - beckoning gardeners to remember to listen to the show. Updated September 2025.

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 1801 On this day, America lost one of its pioneering botanists, Humphry Marshall, the “Father of American Dendrology.” 1869 Ellen Shipman, a…

March 1, 2022 Catharina Helena Dörrien, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Lenore Elizabeth Mulets, Stylish Succulent Designs by Jessica Cain, and Katharine White

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 1717 Birth of Catharina Helena Dörrien, German botanist, writer, and artist. She created over 1,400 botanical illustrations and authored Flora for Orange-Nassau,…

Katharine White: The New Yorker’s Garden Critic and Literary Gardener

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 1, 1958 Dearest reader, On this day, The New Yorker published a groundbreaking garden catalog review by none other than Katharine S. White (books about this person), a gardener and garden writer…

January 26, 2021 Five Secrets of Front-Yard Landscaping, Nikolai Vavilov, Eloise Ray, Katharine White on Bulbs in Pots, The Joy of Botanical Drawing by Wendy Hollender, and National Seed Swap Day the Pandemic Way

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 5 Front-Yard Landscaping Secrets | Better Homes & Gardens Botanical History On This Day 1943 Death of Nikolai Vavilov, a pioneering Russian botanist and plant…

January 6, 2021 The Best Indoor Plants, Kaspar von Sternberg, Syd Barrett, Growing Poisonous Plants, A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year by Jane Hunter, and Lee Reich’s Tree ID Secrets

Remembering Katherine White through the eyes of her Devoted Husband Andy (the Celebrated Author E.B. White) and Fellow Garden Writer Elizabeth Lawrence

“Katherine just spent three days in bed, in pain, caused by a back injury brought on by leaning far out over a flower bed to pick one spring bloom – the daffodil Supreme. It seems a heavy price to pay for one small flower.” July 20, 1977 On this day, the garden writer Katharine White…

Katharine White: The Garden Writer Whose Words Bloomed Beyond the Page

Onward and Upward Today is the anniversary of the death of the garden writer Katharine White. Now, Katharine was married to Andy – but most of us probably know him as E.B. White, the author of three beloved children’s books, Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte’s Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In the…

July 20, 2020 Thomas Rainer’s Garden Tips, David Nelson, Gregor Mendel, Daylilies, Brian Shaw, Katharine White, The Garden as Sanctuary, Shrubs by Andy McIndoe, and Katharine White

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 Unconventional Wisdom: 8 Revolutionary Ideas for Your Garden from Thomas Rainer – Gardenista “When you meet landscape architect Thomas Rainer he comes across as a…

The Season of Lists and Callow Hopefulness

by Katharine S. White For gardeners, this is the season of lists and callow hopefulness; hundreds of thousands of bewitched readers are poring over their catalogs, making lists . . . , and dreaming their dreams. Note: Today’s Unearthed Words are all about seed catalogs. If you are a new…

I Read Garden Catalogs for News

A vintage-style graphic featuring ornate lettering reading "Garden Farm & Flower Seeds," with decorative patterns, mosaic backgrounds, and orange-yellow flowers and green leaves in the foreground.

by Katharine S. White I read [garden catalogs] for news, for driblets of knowledge, for aesthetic pleasure, and at the same time, I am planning the future – so I read in dream. Note: Today’s Unearthed Words are all about seed catalogs. If you are a new gardener, welcome to the joy…

Dreaming in Seed Catalogs: Winter’s Greatest Temptation

Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Garden planning in cozy January. January 9, 2020 Today’s Unearthed Words are a love letter to every gardener’s guilty winter pleasure—the…