Posts Tagged ‘wartime gardens’
From Dystopia to Dahlias: George Orwell’s Secret Garden Life
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 25, 1939 On this day, George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, wrote that his hens had laid two hundred eggs in the previous two weeks. Who would have thought…
Read MoreDefiant Gardens: The Resilient Beauty of Japanese Internment Camp Gardens
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 3, 1942 At the Tanforan Assembly Center, a converted racetrack south of San Francisco, Charles Kikuchi put pen to paper in his journal. “These industrious Japanese!” he marveled. “They just don’t seem…
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