Posts Tagged ‘seasonal reflection’
February 12, 2026 William Mason, Emily Lawless, Frank Lloyd Wright and Jens Jensen, The Beauty of the Flower by Stephen A. Harris, and Revising the Garden
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 February can feel like a month made of drafts. Nothing finished. Nothing resolved. And that’s not a flaw. It can be a good…
Read MoreJanuary 28, 2026 Leslie Young Correthers, Catherine Hauberg Sweeney, Dorothy Wordsworth, A Year in the Life of Beth Chatto’s Gardens by Fergus Garrett, and Winter Garden Courage
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 Late January can feel like a long-held breath. Not dramatic. Just persistent. The garden is still. But it isn’t idle. It’s watching the…
Read MoreJanuary 22, 2026 Francis Bacon, Francis Guthrie, Winter Garden Design at Anglesey Abbey, People With Dirty Hands by Robin Chotzinoff, and Bill and Ben
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 Before we step fully into today’s garden history, a brief note from the weather ledger: 1985 A deep cold wave swept through Florida,…
Read MoreSeptember’s Philosopher: Henri Frederic Amiel’s Garden Wisdom
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 27, 1821 My dearest gardening friends, as autumn’s gentle touch begins to paint our gardens in amber and gold, how fitting it is to recall the birth of Henri Frederic Amiel on…
Read MoreThe road through winter: Arthur St. John Adcock on journeys renewed
by Arthur St. John Adcock The way that leads to winter Will lead to summer too, For all roads end in other roads Where we may start anew. Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. The Way That Leads…
Read MoreLessons from fading leaves: Martine Bailey on November’s quiet solitude
by Martine Bailey, American historical novelist, A Taste for Nightshade The next morning I had to get outside, and so began a period of long walks in the park. Early November continued bright, with the last sun of the year shining low and coppery over the woods. Striding through heaps of rusty autumn leaves, I…
Read MoreReluctance: Robert Frost’s Farewell to Autumn’s Last Flowers
by Robert Frost And the dead leaves lie huddled and still, No longer blown hither and thither; The last lone aster is gone; The flowers of the witch-hazel wither … Today’s Garden words were featured on the podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Robert Frost, American…
Read MoreThe Brook Flows Forever: Tennyson’s Meditation on Nature and Time
by Alfred Lord Tennyson I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorpes, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip’s farm,…
Read MoreRainbows and Falling Leaves: Annie Dillard and Longfellow’s Garden of Heaven
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 rainbow over the autumn forest. November 5, 2019 On this day, the garden gleams with decadent excess—leaves heaped like golden…
Read MoreBartlett Giamatti on the Seasons: The Beautiful, Heartbreaking Cycle
by A. Bartlett Giamatti It’s designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. Today’s Garden words were…
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