May 6, 2022 Jean Senebier, Joseph Joubert, Sigmund Freud, Mirei Shigemori, The Layered Garden by David Culp, and Versailles

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 2022 Compost Awareness Week, a gardener’s gentle reminder that yesterday’s peel becomes tomorrow’s peony—celebrating the alchemy that turns waste into soil. 1742…

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The Rebel’s Garden: Mirei Shigemori’s Horticultural Revolution

Moss garden at Tofuku-ji (1939)

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 6, 1925 On this day, dear cultivators of beauty and tradition, we celebrate a pivotal moment in the annals of garden history. Picture, if you will, a young man of 29, standing…

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