May 26, 2022 Sébastien Vaillant, Horace Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Kate Lancaster Brewster, The Thoughtful Gardener by Jinny Blom, and Edgar Fawcett

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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 1669 Birth of Sébastien Vaillant (“Vy-yaw”), French botanist. 1742 On this day, Horace Walpole wrote to Horace Mann, in part describing his…

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A Night at Ranelagh: Horace Walpole’s Garden Escapade

Horace Walpole by John Ciles Eccardt, 1755

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 26, 1742 On this day, dear readers, we find ourselves transported to the world of 18th century London, where the illustrious Horace Walpole penned a most intriguing letter to his friend Horace…

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