Posts Tagged ‘Magnolia’
May 21, 2026 Pierre Magnol, Emily Dix, Robert Creeley, Bella Donna by Jill Johnson, and Henri Rousseau
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today’s Show Notes On this day in 1950, the English gardener Vita Sackville-West sat down with her garden journal and noticed something she couldn’t let go…
Read MoreApril 8, 2026 John Claudius Loudon, Thomas Drummond, Barbara Kingsolver, Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies by Maria Noël Groves, and Georgiana Molloy
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today’s Show Notes April has settled in now. And the flowering shrubs are beginning to prove it. Magnolia first. Those thick, velvet buds holding their breath…
Read MoreFather of the fuchsia: Charles Plumier’s Caribbean botanical discoveries
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 20, 1646 Dearest reader, On this day, in the wind-swept port of Marseille, a man was born whose curiosity would change the course of botanical history — Charles Plumier, priest, scholar, explorer,…
Read MoreMark Catesby: The Artistic Naturalist Who Painted North America’s Wild Beauty
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 24, 1682 Dearest reader, On this day, we remember the baptism of Mark Catesby, an English naturalist, artist, and intrepid explorer whose pioneering journeys to the New World revealed the extraordinary flora…
Read MoreFrances Bickelhaupt: The Arboretum Maker Who Restored Trees in lowa
The Bickelhaupt Arboretum April 28, 1916 Today is the birthday of the arboretum-maker Frances Bickelhaupt. Frances is remembered for the arboretum that she and her husband Robert created around their family home in Clinton, Iowa. During the 1960s and 1970s, Robert and Frances watched in dismay as Dutch Elm disease claimed the beautiful Elm-lined streets…
Read MoreGarden Writer Allen Lacy’s Tribute to the Beautiful Old Cucumber Magnolia Tree at Montrose Nursery Fell in Storm
“This tree was more than a tree. It was endowed with energy that bordered on something beyond the natural order.” On March 11th, 1992, a beautiful Magnolia tree at Montrose fell to the ground. The tree’s story was shared in The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and the title was In Memoriam of Montrose’s Priceless Tree by…
Read MoreApril 20, 2020 The Best Indoor Herb Gardens, Kitchen Scrap Gardening, Charles Plumier, Agnes Block, William Bartram, Louise Beebe Wilder, Joan Miró, Gardening Your Front Yard by Tara Nolan, and Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day
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 The 7 Best Indoor Herb Gardens by Scarlett James | Bustle “Fresh herbs are an undeniable delight, even if you don’t channel Ina Garten on…
Read MoreBeverley Nichols’ Forty Favourite Flowers: Iris, Magnolia, and the Timeless Garden Gate
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. Beverley Nichols (1898-1983). He was an English author and playwright known for his diverse literary contributions, particularly his gardening books. October…
Read MoreSerpentine Paths and Magnolia Dreams: The Life of Alexander Garden
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 15, 1791 On this day, the ever-so-clever Alexander Garden of Charleston, South Carolina, drew his final breath at the age of 61, succumbing to the ravages of tuberculosis. A man whose correspondence…
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