October 31, 2024 Spiderwebs and Snow, John Keats, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Seedtime and Harvest by Christie Purifoy, and Troston Gardener Edward Ward

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 1795 John Keats is born into a world he would later capture through some of the most vivid botanical imagery in English poetry.…

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October 30, 2024 October Blooms at Brandywine, Heinrich Cotta, Evelyn Booth, The Cottage Garden by Claus Dalby, and Alfred Sisley’s Garden Wisdom

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 1763 Heinrich Cotta [HINE-rick COT-ah] is born beneath the open sky of Kleine Zillbach [KLINE-eh TSIL-bock], Germany. 1897 Evelyn Mary Booth is…

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October 29, 2024 A Gardener’s Late October Checklist, Charles Wright, Thoreau the Botanist, A Home in Bloom by Christie Purifoy, and USDA Pioneer Effie Southworth

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 1811 Texas botanist Charles Wright is born on this day in Wethersfield, Connecticut. 1972 The Berkshire Eagle published a revealing article about Henry David…

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October 24, 2024 The Great Indoor Houseplant Migration, Marianne North, A Vermont October Snow Story, Margaret Owen, A Life in the Garden by Barbara Damrosch, and Henry Arthur Bright’s October Garden Musings

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 1830 Marianne North, the Victorian Artist Who Painted the World’s Flora, is born. 1843 Learning from History: Vermont’s Snowy October Surprise 1875…

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Learning from History: Vermont’s October Snowy Surprise of 1843

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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. October 24, 1843 And it was on this day, my dear friend, that nature reminded us all why gardeners must never procrastinate. The New England Farmer out of Boston, Massachusetts, shared quite the…

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October 23, 2024 The Autumn Garden, William Casson, Annie Lorrain Smith, Neltje Blanchan, Katharine Stewart, Life in the Garden by Bunny Williams, and Ludwig Leichhardt

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 1796 William Casson, English botanist, seed merchant, and local historian, was born. 1854 Annie Lorrain Smith, British lichenologist and textbook author, was born.…

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October 6, 2021 Garden Border Ideas, Charles Wilkins Short, André Soulié, Levi James Russell, Susan Hill, The Tree Book by Michael Dirr and Keith Warren, and Chris Howell

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Today in botanical history, we celebrate a Kentucky botanist, a French priest and plant explorer, and a Texas doctor and botanist. We’ll hear an excerpt from Susan Hill’s book, The Magic Apple Tree. We Grow That Garden Libraryâ„¢ with another great book by Michael Dirr. And then we’ll wrap things up with a reminder from…

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A Song of October

A Song of October

by Phebe Ann Holder The softened light, the veiling haze, The calm repose of autumn days, Steal gently over the troubled breast, Soothing life’s weary cares to rest. — Phebe Ann Holder, New England poet, A Song of October         November 27, 1824 Today is the birthday of the New England poet…

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One Fine October Morning

by Anonymous One fine October morning In September, last July The sun lay thick upon the ground The snow shone in the sky The flowers were singing gaily The birds were full in bloom So I went down to the cellar To clean the upstairs room — Anonymous As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words…

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A Look Back at the Seasonal Cranberry Market of 1843

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“We had no idea, until today, of the quantity sold in this city. One house in Front street, sold within a few days, 250 barrels, received from Michigan, at $6 – $6.50 per barrel, and have had application for more than they can supply.” October 18, 1843 On this day, cranberries were causing a sensation in…

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Charles Totty

Charles Totty

Fifth Avenue Flowers On this day in 1913, the horticulturist Charles Totty received a medal from the New York Horticultural Society for developing a new rose called “Shell Pink Shawyer.” Totty immigrated to the United States from England. He was known as CH to his friends Totty was a shrewd businessman. On April Fools’ Day…

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Andrew Jackson Downing

Andrew Jackson Downing

A Founder of American Lanscape Architecture Today is the birthday of Andrew Jackson Downing, who was born on this day in 1815. Downing was an American horticulturist and the author of The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, which came out in 1845. He also served as the editor of a magazine called The Horticulturist.   Regarded as…

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John Evelyn

John Evelyn

The Detailed Diary of John Evelyn Today is the birthday of the English Gardner and writer John Evelyn who was born on this day in 1620.  Evelyn kept a detailed diary for 66 years, and he had an excellent understanding of trees. In 1664, Evelyn wrote a treaty called A Discourse of Forest Trees. It was…

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John Keats

John Keats

Ode to Autumn Today is the birthday of the English romantic lyric poet John Keats who was born in 1795. During his short life, (Keats died from tuberculosis at the age of 25), his poems didn’t make much of a mark.   But after his death, Keat’s reputation grew, and today, he is considered one…

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