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February 25, 2022 Anna Gilman Hill, George Harrison, Edna for the Garden, Secret Gardeners by Victoria Summerley, and Olive Mary Edmundson Harrisson

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 Botanical History On This Day 1872 Birth of Anna Gilman Hill, Director of the Garden Club of America (1920-1926) and assistant editor of the Club’s Bulletin. Hill…

Enhanced and Colorized photo of Olive Mary Harrisson from the RHS Lindley Collections

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. December 5, 1881 Dearest Gardeners, Permit me to introduce a heroine of horticulture, though history nearly left her adrift among the weeds: Olive Mary Edmundson Harrisson, born on this day in 1881. Her…

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February 25, 2022 Anna Gilman Hill, George Harrison, Edna for the Garden, Secret Gardeners by Victoria Summerley, and Olive Mary Edmundson Harrisson

Banished from the Borders: Olive Harrisson and the Secret Society of Lady Gardeners