Posts Tagged ‘Tulips’
Sir Jean Chardin: Unearthing the Secret Language of Persian Tulips
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 16, 1643 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of Sir Jean Chardin, a French jeweler whose life sparkled with adventure and whose pen captured the essence of distant lands.…
Read MoreMay 20, 2022 National Pick Strawberries Day, Ludwig Leichhardt, Tulips by Joseph Breck, Pi Beta Ph spring party, Cuke Season in Blackville, Garden Maker by Christie Purifoy, and Dahlia Facts
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 National Pick Strawberries Day Strawberries—our strewn berries—wear their seeds on the outside (about 200 each), belong to the rose family, and fuel…
Read MoreMay 19, 2022 The Dark Day, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tulips, Ruskin Bond, The Modern Cottage Garden by Greg Loades, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Leo Tolstoy
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 1780 The Dark Day dimmed New England by late morning—candles at lunch, animals to roost, prayers said—later recalled in Whittier’s verse and…
Read MoreThe Dreamlike Bouquets of Jan Davidsz. de Heem
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 26, 1684 On this day, the Dutch master of still-life, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, slipped quietly from this world. His brush, however, continues to stir the senses with blossoms that never truly…
Read MoreJim Salyards and the Silent Spring at Filoli During COVID-19
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 25, 2020 Dearest reader, On this day, Jim Salyards, the dedicated Director of Horticulture at the grand Filoli Center, found himself wandering a silent paradise. The famed estate and its 16-acre formal…
Read MoreHow Cornelia Vanderbilt’s Wedding Day was Saved by Biltmore’s Gardeners
“In 2001, the Biltmore commemorated the 75th anniversary of the wedding with a month-long celebration among 2,500 blooming roses in June.” April 29, 1924 Today is the wedding day of Cornelia Vanderbilt. This year (2021) marks her 95th wedding anniversary. When Cornelia married British nobility, the diplomat John Cecil, the wedding flowers had been…
Read MoreRemembering the Dedication of the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and Garden Designer Bunny Mellon
“In fact, the basketweave brick hardscaping in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden is a replica of Bunny’s paving at Oak Spring. To make the surface permeable, Bunny ensured that no mortar touched the bricks. April 22, 1965 On this day, the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden was dedicated. Jackie did not attend the dedication. Her mother attended…
Read MoreGeorge Bernard Shaw: The Playwright Who Found God and Hope in the Garden
Shaw’s Corner Today is the birthday of the Irish playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw. In 1906, when he was 50 years old, George and his wife Charlotte bought an ivy-covered brick country house set on almost four acres of land that ultimately became known as Shaw’s Corner in Ayot St Lawrence. For over four…
Read MoreA Garden of Innocence and Virtue: Ann Taylor’s Blossoms in Verse
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 portrait of Ann Taylor (later Ann Gilbert), a notable English poet and literary critic, best known for her contributions to…
Read MoreMargherita Caffi: Italian Still Life Painter Celebrated for Floral Mastery
A Path for Female Painters Today is the anniversary of the death of Margherita Caffi, who died on this day in 1710. Caffi was an Italian painter who was able to have a long career painting still life flower & fruit compositions. The men in her family were painters, but Caffi was self-taught. A mother…
Read MoreTulipomania by Mike Dash
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Tulipomania by Mike Dash This book came out in 2000, and the subtitle is The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused. Tulipomania by Mike Dash isn’t your average history book. It’s a captivating tale of tulips, obsession, and the world’s first…
Read MoreThe Vanderbilt wedding bloom rescue: How Biltmore’s gardeners saved a roaring 20s celebration
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 29, 1869 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of Agnes Chase – a woman of diminutive stature yet possessed of such formidable determination that she quite literally changed how…
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