Suffrage in Bloom: The Remarkable Garden Life of Nellie McClung

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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 17, 1916 It was on this day that a photograph preserved for posterity captured two titans of women’s suffrage—our own Nellie McClung standing shoulder to shoulder with the formidable British firebrand Emmeline…

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June 17, 2019 Reusing Potting Soil, Edwin Hunt, James Weldon Johnson, Alexander Braun, Nellie McClung, the University of Wisconsin’s Arboretum, Emily Dickinson, Joanne Shaw, The Plant Hunters by Carolyn Fry, Geranium Care, and Lajos Kossuth

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 Monologue Do you change the soil in your window boxes and containers every spring? You really don’t need to – I don’t. Here’s what I do instead:…

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