March 29, 2022 William Baldwin, R. S. Thomas, Yûrin no Niwa, COVID Garden Prep, Homegrown Tea by Cassie Liversidge, and Richard Evans Schultes

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 1779 Birth of William Baldwin, American botanist and physician. He explored Georgia, Florida, Latin America, and the West Indies. Baldwin’s milkwort (Polygala…

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The Garden as Sanctuary: R. S. Thomas’s Poetic Gesture Against the Wild

R. S. Thomas in his eighties.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 29, 1913 Dearest reader, On this day, we celebrate the birth of Ronald Stuart Thomas—better known as R. S. Thomas—a Welsh poet and Anglican priest whose words wove the rugged beauty of the…

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