Posts Tagged ‘Lilies’
Midnight at Versailles: The Moonlit Challenge of Pierre-Joseph Redouté
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 10, 1825 On this day, my cherished garden enthusiasts, I find myself compelled to share a tale of extraordinary artistic achievement that should set every gardener’s heart aflutter. French King Charles X,…
Read MoreRemembering American Garden Writer Helen Morgenthau Fox and her Love of Lilies
Subtitle January 13, 1974 Today is the anniversary of the death of the American botanist, garden lecturer, and garden writer Helen Morgenthau Fox. In 1928, Helen wrote Garden Cinderellas: How to Grow Lilies in the Garden, and Harvard’s Ernest Henry Wilson wrote the forward to this book. Helen shared two stories in this book that made me…
Read MoreJanuary 13, 2021 Gardening Trends for 2021, John Gilbert Baker, Joseph Francis Rock, Holly, and Ivy with Beth Chatto, A Small Porch by Wendell Berry, and Helen Morgenthau Fox on Garden Cinderellas
Today we celebrate a man who was regarded as the most revered British field-botanist of his time. We’ll also learn about the botanist who considered China to be his real home. We’ll hear thoughts on holly and ivy from one of my favorite gardeners. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book of Sunday poems…
Read MoreRemembering Painter and Gardener Claude Monet: His Funeral, His Friend, and His Love of Nature
“Claude said, ‘I am following Nature without being able to grasp her. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.'” December 5, 1926 On this day, the impressionist painter Claude Monet died at 86. Claude had insisted on a simple funeral, and as such, his coffin was draped with plain black cloth. But his…
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