The Daily Gardener

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

Episodes

Total: 545

September 28, 2021 The Black Chokeberry, Thomas Coulter, Francis Turner Palgrave, James Edwin Campbell, Elin Hilderbrand, Wilding by Isabella Tree, and Lady Clara Vyvyan

2021/9/28

Today in botanical history, we celebrate an Irish physician and botanist, an English poet and critic

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

2021/9/27

Today in botanical history, we celebrate a Spanish botanist, a Swiss poet and diarist, and an Americ

September 24, 2021 Fall Garden To-Dos, Metcalf Bowler, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Wilson Rawls, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Welcome to the Farm by Shaye Elliott, and a Weed Bouquet

2021/9/24

Today in botanical history, we celebrate a British Spy/American Farmer, a social reformer and poet,

September 23, 2021 Small Flowering Shrubs, Horace Walpole, Mary Coleridge, Dayton University Botanical Park, the National Flower, Alice Hoffman, Will Bonsall, and Edgar Lee Masters

2021/9/23

Today in botanical history, we celebrate an English earl, an English poet, a forgotten garden, and a

September 22, 2021 Garden Trends 2022, Philip Dormer Stanhope, George Bentham, Phocas the Gardener, Jitterbug Perfume, Wild Interiors by Hilton Carter, and The Garden Palace

2021/9/22

Today in botanical history, we celebrate the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, an English botanist and a Pat

September 21, 2021 Pruning Hydrangeas, H. G. Wells, Robert Montgomery, Fannie Flagg, The Time Traveler's Wife, Uprooted by Page Dickey, and Stephen King

2021/9/21

Today in botanical history, we celebrate an English writer, an American businessman and horticulturi

September 20, 2021 Sydney's Spring Walk, Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau, Mary Sophie Young, Stevie Smith, Patricia Rezai, To Speak for the Trees by Diana Beresford-Kroeger, and Edgar Albert Guest

2021/9/20

Today we celebrate a German botanist, an American botanist, an explorer, and an English poet and nov

September 17, 2021 E Is For Evergreen, Olaus Rudbeck, Hugh Macmillan, Patrick Synge, Kate Morton, Thus Spoke the Plant by Monica Gagliano, and Elizabeth Enright

2021/9/17

Today we celebrate a Swedish botanist and professor, a Scottish minister, and naturalist, and a Brit

September 16, 2021 Flower Shop Success Tips, Engelbert Kaempfer, Marian Cruger Coffin, Annette Hoyt Flanders, Sharyn McCrumb, Walled Gardens by Jules Hudson, and Frederic Edward Clements

2021/9/16

Today we celebrate a German naturalist and two American female landscape architects. We hear an exce

September 15, 2021 The Torture Orchard, James Gates Percival, Frances Garnet Wolseley, Marjorie Harris, Lauren Oliver, The World was My Garden by David Fairchild, and Ripen Tomatoes Fast

2021/9/15

Today in botanical history, we celebrate an American doctor, a Viscountess, and a Canadian fiction w

September 14, 2021 How to Arrange Hydrangeas, Thomas Overbury, Batty Langley, Susan Campbell, David Auburn, The Winter Harvest Handbook by Eliot Coleman, and Thoughts on Transplanting

2021/9/14

Today in botanical history, we celebrate a poet, an English garden designer, and a garden historian.

September 13, 2021 Butternut Onion Galette, Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, Anna Massey Lea Merritt, Henry Hurd Rusby, Giles Milton, Vegan 100 by Gaz Oakley and James Forbes in Baden

2021/9/13

Today we celebrate a German landscape gardener who introduced English gardens to Germany. We'll also

September 10, 2021 Pumpkin Pie Cereal Treats, Richard Spruce, Redouté, Robert Koldewey, Lilian Gibbs, Cyril Connolly, Ella Griffin, The Well-Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith, and David Hosack

2021/9/10

Today we celebrate a botanist remembered for his work collecting cinchona trees in South America. We

June 21, 2021 Jay Sifford’s Garden, Leonhard Rauwolf, Donald Culross Peattie, Susan Wiggs, Small Garden Design by Paul Bangay and Ian McEwan

2021/6/21

Today we celebrate an old account of Tripoli gardens. We’ll remember a botanist, naturalist, and aut

June 2, 2021 Thirty Days Wild, Thomas Hardy, Minnie Aumônier, Secret Gardens of Paris by Alexandra D'Arnoux and Bruno De Laubadere, Norton Juster, a Spelling Bee, and Botanical Latin

2021/6/2

Today we celebrate an English novelist and poet who started out as an architecture student, and one

June 1, 2021 Alberta Botanic Garden, Richard Irwin Lynch, Edith Wharton, Practical Houseplant Book by Zia Allaway and Fran Bailey, and Colleen McCullough

2021/6/1

Today we celebrate a gardener who transformed and developed the Cambridge Botanic Garden. We'll also

May 28, 2021 20 Top Perennials, Anne Brontë, Frank Nicholas Meyer, The Last Camellia, Plants That Kill by Elizabeth Dauncey, and Frances Perry on Silver Foliage

2021/5/28

Today we celebrate a beloved English novelist and poet. We'll also learn about an intrepid plant exp

May 27, 2021 Grasses, Floral Clock, Vincent Price, Yellow in the Garden, Plants by Kathy Willis, and the Run for the Black-Eyed Susans

2021/5/27

Today we celebrate an old account of Linnaeus’s floral clock. We'll also learn about the garden life

May 26, 2021 Becoming a Garden Designer, Sébastien Vaillant, William J. Fisher, Lily of the Valley, Plantopia by Camille Soulayrol, and Edgar Fawcett

2021/5/26

Today we celebrate a French botanist who broke the news to the scientific community in Paris: plants

May 25, 2021 Strawberry Rocks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jamaica Kincaid, Weed Empathy, Plant Identification Terminology by James G. Harrison, and Theodore Roethke

2021/5/25

Today we celebrate a man who changed his personal beliefs and life philosophy after studying nature.