Louisa Yeomans King Archives

May 31, 2022 Walt Whitman, Charles McIlvaine, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Virginia Woolf, The Pickled Pantry by Andrea Chesman, and Louisa Yeomans King

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 1819 Birth of Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist. 1840 Birth of Charles McIlvaine, American author, and mycologist. 1893 Birth of…

May 25, 2022 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Miss Amanda Palmer, George Orwell, The Ripley Garden, Potted History by Catherine Horwood, and Louisa Yeomans King

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 1803 Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet. After graduating from Harvard, Ralph decided to go by his…

May 23, 2022 Carl Linnaeus, Thomas Hood, Georgiana Molloy, Louisa Yeomans King, The Less is More Garden by Susan Morrison, and Eric Carle

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 1707 Birth of Carl Linnaeus (books about this person), Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician. Carl was a fan of flowers early…

Louisa Yeomans King: Planning August’s Glory in May’s Splendor

Louisa Yeomans King, aka Mrs. Francis King

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 23, 1905 On this day, Louisa Yeomans King (books about this person) recorded an entry in her garden diary, which later blossomed into her book, The Flower Garden Day By Day. Let…

May 17, 2022 Sandro Botticelli, Montreal, Robert Tannahill, Elvin Charles Stakman, 150 Gardens You Need To Visit Before You Die by Stefanie Waldek, and Louisa Yeomans King on Peony Pruning

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 1510 Death of Sandro Botticelli, Italian Renaissance master. His painting Allegory of Abundance or Autumn is one of his most elaborate and…

January 16, 2020 Planting Hope, Marks Hall Arboretum, Antonio José Cavanilles, Wine Bricks, Carole Lombard, Louisa Yeomans King, January Poems, Murder Most Florid by Mark Spencer, Tree Branch Hooks, and Lengthening Days by Vita Sackville-West

Today we celebrate the Spanish Enlightenment priest and botanist who named the Dahlia and the glamorous movie star who traded in her star sapphire collection for a tractor. We’ll learn about the item vintners were selling during prohibition and the woman who became the most widely read American Garden author in the United States. Today’s…