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February 24, 2026 Mary Eleanor Bowes, Charles Reid Barnes, Octavia E. Butler, Garden Design Master Class edited by Carl Dellatore, and Steve Jobs

The Daily Gardener Podcast Album Cover with a pot of rosemary - the herb for remembrance - beckoning gardeners to remember to listen to the show. Updated September 2025.

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 Some people tower in history. They change what we know. They change what we build. And yet, when you look closely, so many…

February 24, 2022 Joseph Banks, Steve Jobs, Joseph Rock, Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean by Claudia Roden, and Mary Eleanor Bowes

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 1743 Birth of Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist who sailed with Captain Cook. Banks helped shape the Royal Botanic Garden at…

The Countess and Her Secret Garden: Mary Eleanor Bowes, Botanist, Survivor, Scandal

An enhanced image of Mary Eleanor Bowes with Glamis Castle in the background based on a miniature in the Bowes Museum.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 24, 1749 Dearest Gardeners, On this day, we celebrate the birthday of one of Georgian England’s most extraordinary—and most whispered-about—women of the soil: Lady Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore (books about…