Sarah Raven Archives

July 15, 2022 Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, Joseph Campbell, Iris Murdoch, St. Swithin’s Day, Sarah Raven’s Wild Flowers by Sarah Raven, and Nellie McClung

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1793 Birth of Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American scientist, educator, author, and editor. Her botany writing influenced women in the 1800s to…

March 11, 2021 Sarah Raven’s Tip for Growing Herbs, Pierre Turpin, Jean White-Haney, Delphinium Secrets, Food Grown Right In Your Backyard by Colin McCrate and Brad Halm, and Montrose’s Priceless Tree

Today we celebrate a botanical illustrator who is remembered as one of the greats from the 17th century. We’ll also learn about a woman who battled the Prickly Pear Cactus – not an easy thing to do. We’ll hear an excerpt from an expert on growing giant hybrid delphinium – and why we really should…

Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst by Vita Sackville-West and Sarah Raven

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Sissinghurst by Vita Sackville-West and Sarah Raven The subtitle of this book is Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden. The British poet and writer Vita Sackville-West wrote a weekly column in The Observer, where she shared her life at Sissinghurst. Who better than Sarah Raven, who…

January 27, 2020 Butterfly Symmetry as Camouflage, The Love of Peat, Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach, Samuel Palmer, Lewis Carroll, the National Geographic Society, the Humboldt Botanical Garden, Sissinghurst by Vita Sackville-West and Sarah Raven, Stylus 10 Pack, and Terramycin

Today we celebrate the King whose dream castle incorporated 1,200 varieties of tulips and the man who is regarded as the greatest channeler of the English rural landscape. We’ll learn about the mathematician who wrote a book inspired by the Oxford Botanic Garden and the relatively young Botanic Garden that was started in the 90s…