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May 19, 2026 Kate Furbish, Genevieve Gillette, Katharine Stewart, The Alcatraz Rose by Anthony Eglin, and Nellie Melba

The Daily Gardener Podcast Album Cover with a pot of rosemary - the herb for remembrance - beckoning gardeners to remember to listen to the show. Updated September 2025.

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 Today is Plant Something Day. And I know — you probably don’t need a holiday to tell you to plant something. You’ve been…

Garden Writer Alice Lounsberry: A Life Devoted to Flowers and Friendship

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 6, 1868 On this day, the botanist and garden writer Alice Lounsberry was born in New York City. From a young age, Alice developed a deep love for the natural world, exploring…

October 23, 2024 The Autumn Garden, William Casson, Annie Lorrain Smith, Neltje Blanchan, Katharine Stewart, Life in the Garden by Bunny Williams, and Ludwig Leichhardt

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 1796 William Casson, English botanist, seed merchant, and local historian, was born. Casson dedicated his life to both plants and people, helping…

Purple Serendipity: The Day James Bates Discovered Nature’s Violet Surprise

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 24, 1914 On this day in horticultural history, a serendipitous discovery graced the fields of Nebraska, forever altering the landscape of botanical intrigue. James M. Bates, a keen-eyed observer of nature’s whims,…

From Stage to Soil: Helen Hayes’ Dual Passions

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 10, 1900 On this day, dear readers and fellow cultivators of both stage and soil, we celebrate the birth of a true luminary in the world of theatre and, as it happens,…

Whitman’s Wild Garden: A Poet’s Ode to Nature’s Bounty

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 31, 1819 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of that most American of poets, Walt Whitman. A humanist and wordsmith extraordinaire, Whitman’s free verse has long been the soundtrack…

Tchaikovsky’s Garden: Lily of the Valley & Suite No. 3 (1884)

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 24, 1884 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky discarded his early work on Suite No. 3 and began again; weeks earlier he had walked the garden and found the seed of a melody. The composer’s…

Ruskin Bond: Celebrated Indian Author of Nature and Nostalgia

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 19, 1934 Dearest reader, On this day, we celebrate the birth of Ruskin Bond (books about this person), an English-Indian author whose evocative prose and poetry have charmed readers of all ages…

Seeds of a City: Paul de Chomedey and the Blooming of Montreal

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 17, 1642 On this day, dear readers, we find ourselves transported to the banks of the St. Lawrence River, where Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, a French military officer, catches his…

A Botanist’s Brief Sojourn: Nathaniel Lord Britton’s Nantucket Observations

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 11, 1907 On this day, dear readers, we find ourselves transported to the quaint island of Nantucket, where the esteemed American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton was preparing for a most enlightening lecture…

Charlotte Brontë and the Brontë Sisters: Literary Legends with a Modest Garden

The Brontë sisters: Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Charlotte Brontë.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 21, 1816 Dearest reader, On this day, the eldest of the remarkable Brontë sisters, Charlotte, was born—a woman whose pen painted some of English literature’s most enduring and poignant portraits. Though not…

Edmund Hope Verney: Vancouver Island’s wildflower steward and the seeds of colonial botanical exchange

Sir Edmund Hope Verney, 3rd Baronet (colorized and enhanced)

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 7, 1865 Dearest reader, On this day, a young Edmund Hope Verney received a letter that must have brightened the often lonely hours of his botanical peregrinations on Vancouver Island. After three…

September 27, 2021 Designer Vision, Simón de Rojas Clemente, Henri Frederic Amiel, James Drummond Dole, Catherynne Valente, Wild Flowers of Britain by Margaret Erskine Wilson, and Hope Jahren

Minnie Hite Moody: A Bouquet of Weeds and Southern Charm

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 24, 1980 Dearest readers, On this day, we delve into the charming wit and resilient spirit of Minnie Hite Moody, an American garden columnist whose words bloomed with honesty and humor…