Posts Tagged ‘women in horticulture’
Marianne North: The Victorian Artist Who Painted the World’s Flora
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 24, 1830 And it was on this day, my dear friend, that one of the most extraordinary botanical artists ever to wield a brush drew her first breath in Hastings, England. I…
Read MoreThe Pink Lady of Woodhills: Cora Older’s Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 24, 1875 And it was on this day in 1875, my dear friend, that a remarkable woman who would come to be known as “The Pink Lady” was born in Clyde, New…
Read MoreSeeds of Wisdom: Martha Ballard’s 19th Century Garden Journal
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 16, 1809 On this day, Martha Ballard, the remarkable herbalist and midwife of Hallowell, Maine, recorded her work in her meticulously kept journal. Oh, my dear gardeners, I know how much you…
Read MoreKate Lancaster Brewster: Cultivating Gardens and Communities
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 26, 1921 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, we find ourselves witness to a pivotal moment in the annals of horticultural history. Kate Lancaster Brewster, a veritable doyenne of the gardening world,…
Read MoreDisbudding Peonies: Louisa Yeomans King’s Peony Advice
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: May 17, 1905 From Orchard House to Kingstree, Louisa Yeomans King taught America how to garden with grace—and a dash of pragmatism. Her counsel for peonies is as crisp as a white blouse on a June morning: May 17. Disbud most of your peonies…
Read MoreRedstarts and fading daffodils: Gilbert White’s garden notes
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 19, 1792 Dearest reader, On this day, the ever-observant Naturalist Gilbert White of Selborne took quill to journal and noted, yet profoundly: “Redstart appears. Daffodils are gone. Mountain-snow-drops, and hyacinths in bloom;…
Read MoreA garden of women: Helene Cramer’s late-blooming art
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 14, 1844 Dearest reader, On this day, we celebrate the birth of the quietly audacious spirit of Helene Cramer, born in 1844 in Hamburg, Germany. A lady who, though tethered by convention…
Read MoreEdna for the Garden: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Edna Walling
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 25, 1989 Dearest reader, On this day, the pages of The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, introduced the world to a delightful new play penned by Suzanne Spunner, intriguingly titled “Edna for…
Read MoreBanished from the Borders: Olive Harrisson and the Secret Society of Lady Gardeners
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. December 5, 1881 Dearest Gardeners, Permit me to introduce a heroine of horticulture, though history nearly left her adrift among the weeds: Olive Mary Edmundson Harrisson, born on this day in 1881. Her…
Read MoreBeauty Without Bounds: The Democratic Garden Vision of Annette Hoyt Flanders
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 16, 1887 Dearest garden enthusiasts, today we celebrate the birth of a remarkable woman who championed both the grand and humble garden with equal passion. Born in Milwaukee, Annette Hoyt Flanders was…
Read MoreThe Quiet Revolutionary: Marian Coffin’s Garden Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 16, 1876 Dearest garden enthusiasts, while suffragettes and revolutionaries may not trumpet her name, today we celebrate a quiet revolutionary who transformed American landscape architecture through sheer determination and artistic brilliance. Young…
Read MoreFrom Iron Benches to Innovation: Lady Wolseley’s Garden Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 15, 1872 On this day, we cast our gaze back to when Frances Garnet Wolseley, destined to become the 2nd Viscountess Wolseley, drew her first breath into a world she would later…
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…
Read MoreFrances Garnet Wolseley: Pioneer of Women’s Gardening Education
Gardening for Women December 24, 1936 Today is the anniversary of the death of the influential English gardening author and instructor, Frances Garnet Wolseley. A lifelong single lady, Frances devoted herself to gardening and gardening education. In 1902, on her thirtieth birthday, Frances created the Glynde College for Lady Gardeners on her father’s garden in…
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