Garden Flora by Noel Kingsbury

Garden Flora by Noel Kingsbury

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Garden Flora: The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants in Your Garden by Noel Kingsbury. This book traces garden plants back to their wild origins – cliffs, grasslands, mountains, and edges shaped by wind, salt, and scarcity. It restores the rough beginnings behind familiar garden plants, reminding…

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October 25, 2024 Patrick Neill, Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, Tyge Wittrock Bocher, The Healing Garden by Juliet Blankespoor, and A Tale of Two Postmen Turned Accidental Alpine Plant Merchants

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 1776 Patrick Neill, British printer and horticulturalist, is born. 1840 Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, Classical Scholar, is born.  1909 Tyge Wittrock Böcher [TEE-guh VIT-rock…

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The Arctic Gardener: Tyge Böcher’s Frozen Paradise

Professor W. Tyge Bocher in the arctic greenhouse in Copenhagen (colorized) by H. Elsted Jensen c. 1981.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 25, 1909 Now, dear friends, let us venture north to where the arctic winds whisper tales of an extraordinary botanist born on this day. Tyge Wittrock Böcher [TEE-guh VIT-rock BER-ker] was no…

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From Dust to Discovery: The Birth of Desert Botanist Forrest Shreve

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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. July 8, 1878 On this day, dear readers, the American botanist Forrest Shreve was born, a man whose passion for the arid and seemingly inhospitable would forever change how we understand our desert…

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