Rudyard Kipling Archives

May 20, 2021 Garden Stairways, Honoré de Balzac, the Chelsea Flower Show, Rikki-tikki’s Garden, Petal by Adriana Picker, and National Pick Strawberries Day

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The Beef Between Rudyard Kipling and Boniface: a Damaged Tree Forced a Confrontation

“Rudyard endured these insults until one day when Boniface’s bus hit one of Rudyard’s favorite trees.” January 21, 1901 On this day, The Danville News, out of Danville, Kentucky, shared a story about the English Journalist, poet, and short-story writer Rudyard Kipling. It turns out that Rudyard Kipling rented a place called The Elms in the…

January 22, 2021 Lessons from Festival Beach Food Forest, Ellsworth Jerome Hill, the Douglas-Fir, Boris Levinson on Turning to Nature, Betty Crocker’s Kitchen Gardens by Mary Mason Campbell, and Rudyard Kipling’s Letters About His Street Trees

Rudyard Kipling: The Glory of the Garden at Bateman’s

Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India in 1865. Kipling is widely recognized for his works of fiction, including "The Jungle Book" (1894) and "Kim" (1901), as well as numerous short stories.

The Glory of the Garden January 18, 1936 Today is the anniversary of the death of the English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, Rudyard Kipling. One of England’s most famous writers, Rudyard, purchased a property called Bateman’s in East Sussex in 1902. Rudyard called it his “good and peaceable place.” From the onset, Rudyard envisioned…

January 18, 2021 Say No Thanks to Garden Shortcuts, Alan Alexander Milne, Rudyard Kipling, Thoughts on Thistles, A Year at Kew by Rupert Smith, and the Maple on the Canadian Dollar Bill

Gardens Are Not Made by Singing

A European robin with an orange-red breast and greyish body perched on bare, slender branches, set against a softly blurred, wintry background.

by Rudyard Kipling Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade. Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Rudyard Kipling

The Soul of the Garden: Faith, Labor, Lessons, and a Taste of Strawberries

Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. A summer garden with a gazebo. July 23, 2020 Today’s reflections are a gentle tribute to the art of simply being…

June 27, 2019 National Onion Day, Thomas Say, William Williams, William Guilfoyle, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, The Glory of the Garden by Rudyard Kipling, Practical Botany for Gardeners by Geoff Hodge, Make a Garden Map, and Brevities

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue Today is the very first National Onion Day. It was founded by the National Onion Association, which represents almost 500 growers from across the United States.…

Rudyard Kipling’s “The Glory of the Garden”: Work, Beauty, and England’s Living Heart

by Rudyard Kipling Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, With statues on terraces the and peacocks strutting by; But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye. For where the thick laurels grow, along the thin red…