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February 7, 2022 Cadwallader Colden, Charles Dickens, Henri Frederic Amiel, Green by Ula Maria, and Laura Ingalls Wilder

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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 1688 Birth of Cadwallader Colden, Scottish-American physician, botanist, and Lieutenant Governor of New York. He nurtured his daughter Jane’s passion for botany,…

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer Gardener and Writer of the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder at 50 (colorized and enhanced)

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 7, 1867 Dearest Gardeners, On this day, we celebrate the birth of Laura Ingalls Wilder (books by this author), the beloved American author whose vivid tales of frontier life have charmed generations. But…

Remembering Laura Ingalls Wilder though her Nature and Garden Writing

“The voices of Nature do not speak so plainly to us as we grow older, but I think it is because, in our busy lives, we neglect her until we grow out of sympathy.” February 10, 1957 Today is the anniversary of the death of Laura Ingalls Wilder. One of the reasons so many of…

February 10, 2021 New Owners at Barton Springs Nursery, Benjamin Smith Barton, Winifred Mary Letts, A Sense of the Soil, Cottage Gardens by Claire Masset, and Remembering Laura Ingalls Wilder the Naturalist

Remembering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Writer, Gardener, and Naturalist

“One of the reasons so many of us have a soft spot in our hearts for the Little House books is because Laura was so descriptive; she was a natural storyteller. She was also a little naturalist on the prairie.” February 10, 1957 On this day, the American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder died. One…

February 10, 2020 Midwinter Trees, Plant Health Resolutions, Jan Gronovius, Benjamin Smith Barton, Winifred Mary Letts, Jack Heslop-Harrison, Snow Poems, A Land Remembered by Patrick D Smith, Wood Markers, and Laura Ingalls Wilder

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 Alan Titchmarsh: The stunning midwinter trees whose bark is better than their bite – Country Life Here’s a great post by Alan Titchmarsh in Country…