November 18, 2019 The National Trust Cover Photo, The Feminine History of Botany, William Shenstone, Leo Lesquereux, Asa Gray, Kim Wilde, Margaret Atwood, Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life by Marta McDowell, Boot Tray reboot and Cranberry Frenzy in 1843

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Today we celebrate the gardener who turned his farm into a picturesque wonder and the Swiss botanist who survived a fall from a mountaintop that foreshadowed a life of highs and lows. We’ll learn about the American botanist Darwin confided in two years before he shared his theory with the rest of the world and…

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People Who Make Us Happy

Marcel Proust

by Marcel Proust Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.   Note: Today is the anniversary of the death of the French writer Marcel Proust (“proost”) who died on this day in 1922. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by…

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