Posts Tagged ‘Versailles’
May 6, 2022 Jean Senebier, Joseph Joubert, Sigmund Freud, Mirei Shigemori, The Layered Garden by David Culp, and Versailles
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 Compost Awareness Week 1742 Birth of Jean Senebier, a Swiss pastor and botanist. Where would we be without Senebier? We’d still…
Read MoreMidnight at Versailles: The Moonlit Challenge of Pierre-Joseph Redouté
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 10, 1825 On this day, my cherished garden enthusiasts, I find myself compelled to share a tale of extraordinary artistic achievement that should set every gardener’s heart aflutter. French King Charles X,…
Read MoreLiterary Gardens: How Edith Wharton Designed with Words and Flowers
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 1, 1937 My dear readers, on this most peculiar day, the eminent American authoress Edith Wharton suffered a rather inconvenient heart attack while gracing the country estate of her friend and co-author…
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