Posts Tagged ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’
May 19, 2022 The Dark Day, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tulips, Ruskin Bond, The Modern Cottage Garden by Greg Loades, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Leo Tolstoy
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 1780 It was on this day that much of New England was shrouded in darkness. In fact, many feared that Judgment…
Read MoreGeraniums and Gothic Tales: Hawthorne’s Horticultural Horror Story
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 19, 1864 On this day, dear readers, we mark the passing of Nathaniel Hawthorne (books about this person), the American novelist and short-story writer whose pen brought us such classics as The…
Read MoreDecember 23, 2020 Six Great Perennials for Design, John Jay, Francis Masson, Ann Batten Cristall, The Grow Your Own Food Handbook by Monte Burch, and Mystical Mistletoe Is Historical Sprig
Today we celebrate a gardener who was also a Founding Father and a Governor of New York. We’ll also learn about a botanist who brought back the Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia reginae “REJ-in-ee”) as well as a plant that is now the oldest living potted plant at Kew. We hear a charming poem that takes…
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