Mavis Batey Archives

May 5, 2022 Thomas Edward Brown, Richard Watson Dixon, Christopher Morley, Mavis Batey, The Magical World of Moss Gardening by Annie Martin, and Napoleon Bonaparte

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 Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1830 Thomas Edward Brown, Victorian poet and theologian of the Isle of Man, was born. His gentle garden verse continues to delight,…

From Enigma to Eden: The Extraordinary Life of Mavis Batey

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 5, 1921 On this day, dear friends of the green and growing, we celebrate the birth of a most remarkable woman: Mavis Lilian Batey. Imagine, if you will, a life that reads…

Mavis Batey: WWIl Hero and Garden Historian

The Code-Breaking Gardener November 12, 2013 Today is the anniversary of the death of the World War II hero and garden historian and restorer extraordinaire Mavis Batey, who died at the age of 92. Mavis broke the German Enigma code, which allowed the Allied forces to stage their D-Day invasion. In the back half of…

November 12, 2020 Arthur Shurcliff, Gilbert Campbell, Mavis Batey, Hyacinth by Saadi, The Seed Garden by Lee Buttala, Shanyn Siegel, and Henry Clay Mitchell

Remembering Mavis Batey: Codebreaker Turned Landscape Historian and Garden Designer

“We had to cut our way into it. It was all overgrown, and garden ornaments were buried in the grass, but I knew at once it wasn’t just an ordinary derelict garden: someone had tried to say something there, I knew at once it wasn’t just an ordinary derelict garden: someone had tried to say…

November 12, 2019 Gardening Zodiac Signs, Stolen Compost, Australia’s Most Popular Indoor Plant, The Savill Garden Sculptures, Bougainville, Eschscholtz, Arthur Shurcliff, Orchids, Pedro Dot, Herbal Tea Gardens by Marietta Marshall Marcin, Forcing Bulbs, and Mavis Batey

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 Cancer, Libra, Virgo: THESE Zodiac Signs love nature and find gardening therapeutic | @Pinkvilla Finally, a horoscope I find myself wholeheartedly agree with – Cancer,…