Posts Tagged ‘William Kent’
April 12, 2022 Georg Joseph Kamel, William Kent, Gladys Taber, National Licorice Day, The Five Minute Garden by Laetitia Maklouf, and Clare Leighton
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1661 Birth of Georg Joseph Kamel (“CAH-mel”), Czech pharmacist, naturalist, and Jesuit missionary. Georg was born in Brno (pronounced “burr-no”), the city…
Read MoreFebruary 6, 2020 The Aphid Alarm Pheromone, Stealing Cuttings, Prospero Alpini, Joseph Sabine, Capability Brown, Edgar Anderson, Charles Heiser, Winter World by Bernd Heinrich, Ladbrooke Soil Blocker, and Spam with Loganberry Sauce
Today we celebrate the Italian botanist who introduced coffee and bananas to Europe and the botanist who described new varieties of mums from China on this day in 1822. We’ll learn about the man who could see the capabilities of a landscape In the botanist who wrote encouraging letters to one of his students. Today’s…
Read MoreApril 15, 2019 The Garden as a World Unto Itself, William Kent, Allan Cunningham, George Harrison Shull, Francis Hallé, Alexander Garden, Francis Quarles, The Atlas of Poetic Botany, The Garden Budget, and Sphagnum Moss
William Kent wrote: “A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.” I’ve usually thought about my garden as my happy place. It’s a natural mood changer for me. But I remember one time when I was out…
Read MoreApril 12, 2019 Plant Tags, Licorice, Zina Pitcher, John J. Audobon, Thomas Nuttal, William Kent, Dr. Edward G. Voss, and Peter White
I was looking at the cute brass plant labels on the Target website the other day – I was trying to find the link to that adorable garden tote I was telling you about, and I thought about the evolution of a gardener when it comes to using plant tags. First, you start out needing…
Read MoreAll Gardening
by William Kent All gardening is landscape painting. Note: On this day in 1748 the pioneer of the English Landscape garden, William Kent died. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. William Kent
Read MoreNature Abhors
by William Kent Nature abhors a straight line. Note: On this day in 1748 the pioneer of the English Landscape garden, William Kent died. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. William Kent
Read MoreHo! Gate, How Came ye Here?
by William Kent Ho! Gate, how came ye here? I came fro’ Chelsea the last yere Inigo Jones there put me together Then was I dropping by wind and weather Sir Hannes Sloane Let me alone But Burlington brought me hither This architecton-ical Gate Inigo Jon-ical Was late Hans Slon-ical And now Burlington-ical …
Read MoreA Garden is to Be
by William Kent A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones. Note: On this day in 1748 the pioneer of the English Landscape garden, William Kent died. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words…
Read MoreGarden as Though
by William Kent Garden as though you will live forever. Note: On this day in 1748 the pioneer of the English Landscape garden, William Kent died. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. William Kent
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