The Daily Gardener

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

Episodes

Total: 545

May 31, 2019 Why Do You Garden, Charles McIlvaine, Virginia Woolf, Martha Maxwell, Walt Whitman, This Compost, Photo Friday, Hosta Inventory, Calvin Lamborn and the invention of Sugar Snap Peas

2019/5/31

Why do we garden? This was a question that was posted in a Facebook group I belong to, and it rece

May 30, 2019 Extra Garden Tools, Voltaire, Gustav Leopold Miller, the Brush Weeder, Bill Burt, National Mint Julep Day, Cicily Mary Barker, The Lilac Fairyx, Green Thoughts, Eleanor Perenyi, Perennial Vines, and Concealing Unsightly Clothesline Posts

2019/5/30

Today I'm heading over at 1 o'clock to Walmart to pick up my mobile order. It has a ton of things I

May 29, 2019 Sun Traps, John Barrymore, Joyce Winifred Vickery, Alfonsina Storni, Mirabel Osler, Succession Seed Annual Flowers, and the Wedding of Townshend and Kate Brandegee

2019/5/29

Do you have a little sun trap in your garden? The perfect spot for an afternoon of lounging while re

May 28, 2019 Unkind Garden Advice, William Herbert, Hippeastrum, Carl Richard Nyberg, Amaryllis and Alteo, Amaryllis Poem, Minta Collins, Medieval Herbs, Exposed Tree Roots and the Wentworth Lilacs of New Hampshire

2019/5/28

Gardeners. Horticultural experts. Professors, even. On the garden path, you can, from time to

May 24, 2019 Gardeners and Weeds, Ynes Mexia, Queen Victoria, Frank Cabot, Les Quatre Vents, Linda Leinen, The Naming of Plants, Anna Pavord, The Naming of Names, Photo Friday in the Garden, and Ynes Mexia's Exploits in Mexico and South America

2019/5/24

Emerson once wrote, "To science there is no poison; To botany no weed; To chemistry no dirt." As

May 23, 2019 Growing as a Gardener, Carl Linnaeus, the Centigrade thermometer, Commelina genus, Sjupp the Raccoon, the Hamburg Hydra, Linnaea borealis or Twinflower, August Strindberg, Planting Cannas, Martin Hoffman, and Linnaeus' Lapland Costume

2019/5/23

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "But these young scholars... Love not the flower they pluck, and kn

May 22, 2019 A Gardener's Bedtime Ritual, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Florence Meier Chase, Victor Hugo, Gardentopia, Jan Johnsen, Living Mulch, and the death of Conan Doyle

2019/5/22

Here's a gardener's bedtime ritual for this time of year: Take sandpaper or a nail file and nick tho

May 21, 2019 Bolting Rhubarb, Alexander Pope, Henri Rosseau, Pope's Grotto at Twickenham, The Land of the Blue Poppies, Frank Kingdon Ward, Installing Garden Paths, and Richard Walter Pohl

2019/5/21

Is your rhubarb bolting already? When your rhubarb seems to be bolting too early, ask yourself the

May 20, 2019 Knives in the Garden, National Pick Strawberries Day, Horatio Hollis Hunnewell, Chelsea Flower Show, Paul Martin's Lazy Salad Days, John Milton's Song on a May Morning, Wild Fruits by Thoreau, Edge Gardening, and Ludwig Leichhardt

2019/5/20

Have you ever used a knife as a garden tool? Serrated knives are my favorite. The word serrated

May 17, 2019 Ready to Garden, Botticelli, George Glenny, Requirements for Plant Explorers, Bernadette Cozart, Rocky Mountain Field Botany Course, Market Garden Workshop at Green Cauldron Farm, James Hunt, The Golden Circle, Hal Borland, and another Photo

2019/5/17

Are you feeling it yet? The urge to get going in the garden? I was reading a book from 1915 about

May 16, 2019 Plant Tags, Growing Zones, Luigi Fenaroli, Charles Theodore Mohr, University of Winnipeg, Sara Teasdale, May, Wild at Home, Hilton Carter, Fall Blooms, the Kentucky State Flower, and Goldenrod

2019/5/16

Do you know what to look for on a plant tag? The first major thing I look at is growing zone. Oft

May 15, 2019 Plant Height, Isaac Newton, President Lincoln, the USDA, Charles Sprague Sargent, the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve, Ettie C. Alexander, the NOLA Museum of Art, Emily Dickinson, Ina Coolbrith, Top-dressing, and Elizabeth Cady Stanto

2019/5/15

Plant height is one of the factors often indicated on plant tags. But mature height often takes te

May 14, 2019 Garden Experts, Mary Delany, Edward Jenner, John Cushnie, Hal Borland, Ruth Hayden, Slowing Growth in Shade, and the Mayapple

2019/5/14

Most gardeners share a common secret: they never feel like they know enough about gardening to call

May 13, 2019 Class on Herbs, Enid Annenberg Haupt, Allison Hargraeves, the Corpse Flower, National Public Gardens Week, John Burroughs Journals, Vassar College, Beth Chatto, Growing Herbs in Shade, and Enid Haupt's 1971 New York Apartment

2019/5/13

Have you ever taken a class on gardening? If you're in the Calgary area, there's an excellent clas

May 10, 2019 Botanical Intuition, Leonard Mascall, John Hope, Alan Grimmel, Canada's Compost Week, The Friends School Plant Sale, Cecelia Payne, Botanical Sketchbook, Helen and William Bynum, Photo Friday, and Mascall on Tree Placement

2019/5/10

Have you ever intuited the name of a plant? A few years ago, I traveled to San Diego. I was sittin

May 9, 2019 Your Impact on Your Garden, Alexandre Cassini, Lewis and Clark and Le Page, the Delaware State Flower, Hewett Watson, A Nation in Bloom, Matthew Biggs, Prune Time, and Erwin Frink Smith

2019/5/9

Take two gardeners. They grow up learning to garden from the same person. They read the same boo

May 8, 2019 Plant Problems, the US Botanic Garden, Emil Christian Hansen, Paul Kremer, Veggie by Orbitec, Sir David Attenborough, Chris Woods, Gardenlust, Angelica archangelica, and a 1912 Recipe for Rhubarb Pudding

2019/5/8

You know the saying bad things come in threes? The dishwasher stops working. You get in a car ac

May 7, 2019 Deep Dives in the Garden, Gerard van Swieten, Rochester Parks Commission, RHS Radish Trial, Henry Teuscher, Bartram's Garden, Rabindranath Tagore, Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden, Garden Trials, and Charles Darwin

2019/5/7

Deep dives. Gardeners love to fall in love with particular plants. We can fall so hard, that we

May 6, 2019 Warm Night Temperatures, Jean Senebier, Lomatium, Alexander Von Humboldt, Temperate House, Massachusetts Hort Society, Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature, Mother's Day Flowers, and the Hudson Garden Club

2019/5/6

We are on the cusp of continuous warm nights. Warm soil temps will take a few more weeks. Recent

May 3, 2019 National Garden Meditation Day, Walter Elias Broadway, Henry Shaw, Saks 5th Avenue, Valley of Flowers Festival, Charles Joseph Sauriol, American Eden, Victoria Johnson, Panoramic Photos, and Remembering Plant Names

2019/5/3

Today is National Garden Meditation Day. Forget about your troubles Go to the garden (if you're