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June 4, 2026 Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, Walter Edward Lammerts, Robert Fulghum, Ruffage by Abra Berens, and Sarah Martha Baker

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today’s Show Notes The British writer William Earle Johns once wrote in The New York Times Magazine: “Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little…

June 4, 2019 Ground Cover Roses, King George III, Nathanial Bagshaw Ward, Katherine Esau, Sarah Martha Baker, Ruth Kassinger, Paradise Under Glass, Planting Peony, and Esau’s Fables

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 Monologue I recently had someone ask me about ground cover roses. They are fantastic for a rose with a low, spreading habit. But they are not really…

Sarah Martha Baker: Listening to the Universal Chorus

A small brown songbird perched on a branch, singing with its beak open against a softly blurred light background.

by Sarah Martha Baker The universe is always singing, And we must learn to listen, So that our heart may join the universal chorus. Notes: Today’s Unearthed Words are by Sarah Martha Baker, who was an English botanist and ecologist. Baker studied brown seaweeds and zonal patterns on the seashore.…