Posts Tagged ‘North Carolina’
October 3, 2022 Otto Jennings, Lewis Gannett, Sergei Yesenin, Thomas Wolfe, Successfully Grow & Garden Citrus Fruit Trees Using Pots and Containers by Madison Pierce, and Philippa Foot
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day Look at the Leaves Day 1877 Birth of Otto Emery Jennings, former curator at the Carnegie Museum…
Read MoreGarden Writer Allen Lacy’s Tribute to the Beautiful Old Cucumber Magnolia Tree at Montrose Nursery Fell in Storm
“This tree was more than a tree. It was endowed with energy that bordered on something beyond the natural order.” On March 11th, 1992, a beautiful Magnolia tree at Montrose fell to the ground. The tree’s story was shared in The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and the title was In Memoriam of Montrose’s Priceless Tree by…
Read MoreNovember 5, 2020 Humphrey Marshall, the Chrysanthemum, John Redfield, Henry Rollins, The New Southern Garden Cookbook by Sheri Castle, and the Vancouver Chinese Garden Otter
Today we celebrate the man remembered as the “Father of American Dendrology” (the study of woody plants, trees, and shrubs). We’ll also learn about the November birth flower, which was celebrated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on this day in 1883. We also recognize the botanist, who was Philadelphia’s botany man during the 1800s. We hear some…
Read MoreThe First-Ever Southeastern Plant Symposium
“Mark Weathington and Tony Avent launched the event in Raleigh. They talked about cutting-edge plants, new gardening trends, and new selections that reinvent how we think about gardening.” June 7, 2019 On this day, the first-ever Southeastern Plant Symposium was held in North Carolina. Mark Weathington and Tony Avent launched the event in Raleigh. They…
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