Novalis Archives

May 2, 2023 John Cabot, Leonardo da Vinci, Meriwether Lewis, John Abercrombie, Thomas Hanbury, Hulda Klager, A Gardener’s Guide to Botany by Scott Zona, and Novalis

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.

The Blue Flower of Novalis: A Romantic’s Garden Dream

Novalis, the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg. Novalis was a prominent German poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 2, 1772 On this day, the literary world welcomed Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name, Novalis. This 18th-century German poet, writer, mystic, and philosopher of early…

May 2, 2022 Novalis, Frederick Arthur Walton, Charlotte Forten, Robert Frost, The Land Gardeners by Bridget Elworthy, and Norman Bor

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 1772 Friedrich von Hardenberg (“Novalis”), German Romantic poet and philosopher, was born. He became known as the “poet of the blue flower.”…

The poet of the Blue Flower: Novalis and the garden’s most elusive bloom

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 2, 1772 The cradle of Saxony held a child named Friedrich von Hardenberg, destined to be known to the world as Novalis, the poet who taught us to dream in blue. His…