The Daily Gardener
The Daily Gardener is a podcast about Garden History and Literature.
The podcast celebrates the garden in an "on this day" format and every episode features a Garden Book.
Episodes are released M-F.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 545
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2024
December 4, 2019 Central Park Arborists, Dahlias at Bramble Garden, Saving Junipers, Andre Michaux, Theodore Vogel, John Tyndall, Edna Walling, Baron von Mueller, Starting & Saving Seeds by Julie Thompson Adolf, Plant Labels, and the Davenport Women's Clu
Today we celebrate one of the first botanists to explore South Carolina and a German botanist who met his end during the 1841 Expedition to Niger. We'll learn about the man who discovered why the s…
December 3, 2019 Five Winter Herbs, The Grateful Tree, Jupiter Artland, Sir Thomas Herriot, Columbus, Claude Aubriet, Henry Arthur Bright, Vegetables Love Flowers by Lisa Ziegler, Horticultural Charcoal, and 100 years without Renoir
Today we celebrate a diary entry made by Columbus as well as the man who introduced the potato to England. We'll learn about the Botanical Painter, who served botanists and French Royalty and the ga…
December 2, 2019 Plant Science Careers, Dirk Denison Home, Cheesy Acorn Squash, Johann Julius Hecker, James Edward Smith, John Lewis Russell, Ferdinand Lindheimer, Gardenlust by Christopher Woods, Gardeners Hand Cream, and December's Birth Flower
Today we celebrate the German reformer who added the cultivation of Mulberries and silkworms as part of his schools and the man who started the Linnean Society.
We'll learn about the Salem Botanist, …
November 26, 2019 Herbal-Infused Broth, Leave the Leaves, Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, Henry Winthrop Sargent, Oak by William Bryant Logan, a Thanksgiving Time Capsule and an Olive Tree on a Movie Set in 1949
Today we celebrate the man who discovered that plants have circadian rhythms. We'll learn about the 20-acre estate that had the very first lawn mowed by a lawnmower in the United States. We'll hear…
November 25, 2019 Best Holiday Botanical Garden, Vancouver Seawall, Francisco de Paula Marín, Leonard Woolf, Hideo Sasaki, Rudolph Boysen, Orchid Modern by Marc Hachadourian, Holiday Microgreens, and Starting a Walking Club
Today we celebrate the Spaniard who brought the pineapple and coffee to Hawaii. We'll learn about the man who gardened at Monks House so much it would cause fights with his wife. We'll honor the J…
November 22, 2019 Gravel Garden Beds, 30 Top Landscape Perennials, Edwin Jellett, Doris Duke, George Eliot, Herb Topiaries by Sally Gallo, Yule Log, and November Strawberries in 1843
Today we celebrate the man who wrote extensively about the history and flora of Germantown and...
We'll learn about the 11-roomed garden created to honor the tobacco magnate James Buchanan Duke.
We'l…
November 21, 2019 Dancing with Bees, the Garden Works in Winter, Jan Gronovius, Albert Burrage, Harold Nicolson, A Potted History of Vegetables by Lorraine Harrison, Tchotchke Tidy Up, and the First Garden TV Show
Today we celebrate the botanist who named the very first plant for his mentor Carl Linnaeus, and we celebrate the 160th birthday of one of the country's wealthiest orchidologists and the founder of t…
November 20 Horticultural Fleece, School Horticulture Clubs, John Merle Coulter, Penelope Hobhouse, Lespedeza, August Henry Kramer, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening by Katie Elzer-Peters, Holiday Planters, and the Smallest Rose Park
Today we celebrate the botanist who started the Botanical Gazette back in 1875 and the incredibly down-to-earth yet inspiring garden designer and writer who turns 90 years old today. We'll learn abo…
November 19, 2019 German Garden Ideas, Christmas Cactus Care, Grave Gardening, Nathan Franklin Barrett, Calvert Vaux, Tennyson, John Tabb, Adventures of a Gardener by Peter Smithers, Place Cards, and Botanical Brothers at Gettysburg
Today we celebrate the co-founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a man who maximized his small space garden about 130 years before the rest of us. We'll learn about the man who …
November 18, 2019 The National Trust Cover Photo, The Feminine History of Botany, William Shenstone, Leo Lesquereux, Asa Gray, Kim Wilde, Margaret Atwood, Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life by Marta McDowell, Boot Tray reboot and Cranberry Frenzy in 1843
Today we celebrate the gardener who turned his farm into a picturesque wonder and the Swiss botanist who survived a fall from a mountaintop that foreshadowed a life of highs and lows. We'll learn ab…
November 15, 2019 Bob Randall's Houston Garden Guide, 50 Top Plants, Fall Berries, Australia's First Grapes, Marianne Moore, Georgia O'Keeffe, The Surprising Life of Constance Spry by Sue Shephard, Punch Bowls and the State Flower of Florida
Today we celebrate the first grapes that were grown down under and the poet who saved a tree that looks like it came straight out of a fairy tale. We'll learn about the painter who was supposed to p…
November 14, 2019 Grow Your Own Wellness Garden, Collecting Seeds, Preserving the Torreya, Henri Dutrochet, Robert Buist, Claude Monet, Thomas Mawson, HB Prince Charles, Robert Frost, Monet's Passion by Elizabeth Murray, Seedheads, and International Tempr
Today we celebrate the botanist who discovered osmosis and the botanist who helped popularize the poinsettia. We'll learn about the painter who made an indelible garden out of waste marshland and th…
November 13, 2019 Coleus Cuttings, Air Plants, Make a Christmas Seedhead Wreath, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frederick Lueders, Chrysanthemum Show, Howard Scott Gentry, Square Foot Gardening 3rd Edition, Houseplant Spa Day, and Bedding Plants as Wealth Indic
Today we celebrate the writer who dedicated his book called A Child's Garden of Verses to his childhood nurse and the German botanist who lost all of his work in the Columbia River. We'll learn abou…
November 12, 2019 Gardening Zodiac Signs, Stolen Compost, Australia's Most Popular Indoor Plant, The Savill Garden Sculptures, Bougainville, Eschscholtz, Arthur Shurcliff, Orchids, Pedro Dot, Herbal Tea Gardens by Marietta Marshall Marcin, Forcing Bulbs,
Today we celebrate the French admiral and explorer who had a female botanist posing as a male valet on his voyage. We'll learn about the botanist who is remembered by the State Flower of California …
November 11, 2019 Kashmir Paradise, Orchids with Alys Fowler, Perennial Garden Care, Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, Chrysanthemums, the Leonids, Carl Peter Thunberg, Beverley Nichols, Gardening for Butterflies by The Xerces Society, Staking Trees, and Elizabeth
Today we celebrate the botanist who bred more than 40 types of pears - including our most popular varieties. We'll learn about the cultural meanings associated with the chrysanthemum and the Swedish…
November 8, 2019 Dividing Perennials, Kew's Agius Garden, Medieval Herb Gardens, Tree Intelligence, Victoria Cruziana, Kate Sessions, Vavilov Seed Bank, Bluethenthal Wildflower Preserve, Covent Gardens, How to Know the Ferns by Frances Theodora Parsons, B
Today we celebrate the plant named in honor of Queen Victoria and the President of Peru and Bolivia. We'll learn about the Mother of Balboa Park and how the world seed bank was saved during WWII. W…
November 7, 2019 An Ingenious Compost Bin, Hedge Planting Advice, Six Hardy Annuals to Sow Now, Winter's Day, Warren Manning, Willis Linn Jepson, Irvin Williams, Ruth Pitter, Thoreau, Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katherine White, Outdoor Rugs, and
Today we celebrate the Landscape Architect, who left a mark on over 50 towns in the United States.
We'll learn about The Botany Man, who helped start The Sierra Club.
We'll hear beautiful words abou…
November 6, 2019 Modern Monochromatic Wedding Flowers, Vegan Garden, Saffron for Emotional Health, Saving Seeds, Bernard de Jussieu, Alice Lounsberry, Gladys Tabor, Vertical Vegetables by Amy Andrychowicz, Succulent Funeral, and Frank Kingdon Ward
Today we celebrate the Versailles botanist who started organizing plants in a new way but kept his method a secret. We'll learn about the young New Yorker and garden writer who met the perfect botan…
November 5, 2019 Small Garden Ideas on a Budget, Best Plants for November, Garden Wedding at Waterford, Humphrey Marshall, John Redfield, Botanicum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis, Winterizing your Pressure Washer, and Otter Troubles
Today we celebrate the botanist who created the second botanical garden in the United States and the botanist who was a dear friend to Asa Gray and was with him as he saw first hand one of the most s…
November 4, 2019 Color for the Winter Garden, Favorite Ginkgo Varieties, Houseplant Trend, Thoreau on Autumn, Janaki Ammal, Arizona Palm, The Garden in Every Sense and Season by Tovah Martin, Spigots Off, and Benedict Roezl
Today we celebrate fall through the eyes of a writer and naturalist from the year 1855 and the botanist honored with building on the University of Glasgow. We'll learn about the Indian botanist who …