The Daily Gardener

The Daily Gardener is a podcast about Garden History and Literature. The podcast celebrates the gard

Episodes

Total: 545

January 22, 2021 Lessons from Festival Beach Food Forest, Ellsworth Jerome Hill, the Douglas-Fir, Boris Levinson on Turning to Nature, Betty Crocker's Kitchen Gardens by Mary Mason Campbell, and Rudyard Kipling’s Letters About His Street Trees

2021/1/22

Today we celebrate a disabled botanist who felt no area could be considered fully explored. We'll al

January 21, 2021 Hillside Landscaping Ideas, Erwin Frink Smith, Rae Selling Berry, Rosemary Verey’s Thoughts on Patterns, American Grown by Michelle Obama, and Going Nuts on National Squirrel Appreciation Day

2021/1/21

Today we celebrate one of my favorite botanists and his personal story of love and love of poetry an

January 20, 2021 January Garden Chores, Henry Danvers, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Elizabeth Lawrence on Dogwoods and Spider Lilies, All Along You Were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols, and the first female botanist in America: Jane Colden

2021/1/20

Today we celebrate the pardoned outlaw who donated the land for the Oxford Botanic Garden. We'll als

January 19, 2021 Three Gorgeous Ways to Group Containers, Alice Eastwood, Carlotta Case Hall, The Magic of Light, Windcliff by Daniel J. Hinkley, and the Soapy State Flower of New Mexico: the Yucca

2021/1/19

Today we celebrate the self-taught botanist who saved the San Francisco herbarium. We'll also learn

January 18, 2021 Say No Thanks to Garden Shortcuts, Alan Alexander Milne, Rudyard Kipling, Thoughts on Thistles, A Year at Kew by Rupert Smith, and the Maple on the Canadian Dollar Bill

2021/1/18

Today we celebrate the man who bought a forested property and wrote Winnie the Pooh. We'll also lear

January 15, 2021 How to Grow and Care for Spirea Shrubs, the British Museum, Richard Buxton, Identifying Wildlife in the Winter Garden, A Year at Brandywine Cottage by David Culp, and The Garden of a Commuters Wife: Mabel Osgood Wright

2021/1/15

Today we celebrate living virtually - we can tour one of the world’s greatest museums - which opened

January 14, 2021 The Transformation of a Yorkshire Garden, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Marie-Anne Libert, Appreciating the Dandelion, A Taste for Nightshade by Martine Bailey and the Louisiana Garden Expert: Joe White

2021/1/14

Today we celebrate one of my favorite botanical painters. We'll also learn about a botanist who was

January 13, 2021 Gardening Trends for 2021, John Gilbert Baker, Joseph Francis Rock, Holly, and Ivy with Beth Chatto, A Small Porch by Wendell Berry, and Helen Morgenthau Fox on Garden Cinderellas

2021/1/13

Today we celebrate a man who was regarded as the most revered British field-botanist of his time. We

January 12, 2021 The Perfect Cup of Herbal Tea, Jean Jules Linden, Edred John Henry Corner, Linneas’s Stark Funeral Instructions, A Rum Affair by Karl Sabbagh, and James Henry Salisbury’s War on Fruit and Vegetables

2021/1/12

Today we celebrate a descriptive rare orchid hunter who changed the way orchids were cared for. We'l

January 11, 2021 Regenerative Grower New Year’s Resolutions, William Curtis, Plough Monday, Rosemary Verey’s Wintersweet, A Place to Call Home by James Farmer, and the Persistent Peter Forsskål

2021/1/11

Today we celebrate the founder of the influential Curtis Botanical Magazine. We'll also learn about

January 8, 2021 The Three Friends of Winter, Eliza Ridgely, Walter Tennyson Swingle, Dig For Victory January Advice, A Place For Us by Harriet Evans, and Herb Wagner of Wagner Tree Fame

2021/1/8

Today we celebrate the avid gardener who transformed the gardens at what was once the largest privat

January 7, 2021 Beautiful Bark on Deciduous Trees, Louise Imogen Guiney, Vivi Laurent-Täckholm, Enticing Plant Descriptions in Garden Catalogs, A Passion for Detail by Charlotte Moss, and Frank Lebby Stanton on Rosy Living

2021/1/7

Today we celebrate an American poet, essayist, and editor who is often remembered in a photograph wh

January 6, 2021 The Best Indoor Plants, Kaspar von Sternberg, Syd Barrett, Growing Poisonous Plants, A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year by Jane Hunter, and Lee Reich’s Tree ID Secrets

2021/1/6

Today we celebrate a botanist regarded as the "Father of Paleobotany" - the study of ancient plants

January 5, 2021 How to Make a White Berry Wreath, the Glastonbury Thorn, Robert More, Henry Arthur Bright, Hyacinth Vases, A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane Hunter, and How to Wassail Apple Trees

2021/1/5

Today we celebrate an iconic tree of England - a holy tree with biblical and cultural significance.

January 4, 2021 Invasive Garlic Mustard, Stephen Hales, Johanna Weterdijk, Eleanor Perenyi, Winter Garden Thoughts, A Life in Shadow by Stephen Bell, and Garden Trivia for National Trivia Day

2021/1/4

Today we celebrate an English botanist who discovered which way sap flows in plants. We'll also lear

December 24, 2020 Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1918, Robert Dick, President Benjamin Harrison, Frances Garnet Wolseley, Helen Bayley Davis, Garde Manger by The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), and The Gardener’s Night Before Christmas

2020/12/24

Today we'll celebrate a Scottish baker and botanist who left a charming collection behind as his leg

December 23, 2020 Six Great Perennials for Design, John Jay, Francis Masson, Ann Batten Cristall, The Grow Your Own Food Handbook by Monte Burch, and Mystical Mistletoe Is Historical Sprig

2020/12/23

Today we celebrate a gardener who was also a Founding Father and a Governor of New York. We'll also

December 22, 2020 Tree Ferns, David Hosack, George Eliot, William B. Arnett, David Mas Masumoto, The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook by Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman and Lady Bird Johnson

2020/12/22

Today we celebrate the botanist and doctor who established the nation's first public botanical garde

December 21, 2020 Six Healthy Winter Vegetables to Grow, Robert Brown, Rosemary Verey, Mistletoe, Growing Winter Weeds with Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The Gardens of Luciano Giubbilei by Andrew Wilson, and Lucien Daniel’s 1917 Watering Tip

2020/12/21

Today we celebrate the Scottish botanist who is remembered for the phenomenon known as Brownian Moti

December 18, 2020 The Best Stunning Winter Bark, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lady Cromer, David Austin, a 700-year-old Christmas tree, Rachel Peden, Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist by Michael Judd, and the story of the Tom Cox Arboretum

2020/12/18

Today we celebrate the man who cleverly saved the Royal Botanic Garden during the French Revolution.