Posts Tagged ‘Louisa Yeomans King’
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. Whitman, the bard of democracy, wrote about the natural world with a…
Read MoreA May Pilgrimage: Louisa Yeomans King’s Call to Gardens Beyond
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 31, 1905 Dearest garden reader, On this day, we hear the wise voice of Louisa Yeomans King, enchanting gardeners of her time—and ours—with her enduring recommendation to explore the blooming marvels beyond…
Read MoreMay 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 On This Day 1803 Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and transcendentalist who urged us to “adopt the pace of nature.” Emerson’s visits to…
Read MoreLouisa Yeomans King on Species Lilacs (1905)
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 25, 1905 In her diary later collected in The Flower Garden Day by Day, Louisa Yeomans King urged gardeners toward the interesting — and toward autumn color — when choosing lilacs. MAY…
Read MoreMay 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 On This Day 1707 Carl Linnaeus — Father of Taxonomy, whose Species Plantarum (1753) standardized binomials — also flipped Celsius’s scale, honored the Commelin brothers…
Read MoreLouisa Yeomans King: Planning August’s Glory in May’s Splendor
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…
Read MoreMay 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 On This Day 1510 Sandro Botticelli died; his gardens of myth—Primavera, Allegory of Abundance—spill with gods, roses, and ripe fruit. 1642 Paul de Chomedey, Sieur…
Read MoreDisbudding Peonies: Louisa Yeomans King’s Peony Advice
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: May 17, 1905 From Orchard House to Kingstree, Louisa Yeomans King taught America how to garden with grace—and a dash of pragmatism. Her counsel for peonies is as crisp as a white blouse on a June morning: May 17. Disbud most of your peonies…
Read MoreJanuary 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
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 Planting Hope by Debi Holland | Richard Jackson’s Garden “I work with people who have experienced bereavement or long-term illness. Gardening has been a tremendous…
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