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.

History Leisure Books Literature Writing Nature Home & Garden

Update frequency: every day
Average duration: 20 minutes
Episodes: 545
Years Active: 2019 - 2024

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April 4, 2019 Garden Geography, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Alois Ludwig, the Nova Scotia Mayflower, John Greenleaf Whittier, Diana Donald, Spring Bulbs, Joseph Sauriol

Have you started to think about your garden in geographical terms? Aside from the zone you are gardening in, what are the micro-climates in your garden? Areas sheltered by trees, buildings or oth…

00:09:54 | Thu 04 Apr 2019

April 3, 2019 Garden Moods, John Burroughs, Kate Brandegee, Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter, William Glassley, Magnifying Glass, Trilliums, Wake-Robin

As I was preparing for today’s show, I kept thinking about this quote from John Burrows:

"... One's own landscape comes in time to be a sort of outlying part of himself; he has sowed himself broadcas…

00:08:33 | Wed 03 Apr 2019

April 2, 2019 Upah Gurus in the Garden, Maria Sibylla Merian, Juan Ponce de Leon, American Farmer, Job Baster, Allison Funk, Irrigation System Start Up

What are you curious about in your garden? What are you hoping to learn this season?

You might be signed up for something you didn’t plan to learn.

Maybe you’ve always been a flower gardener, bu…

00:09:24 | Tue 02 Apr 2019

April 1, 2019 A Brand New Gardening Podcast, Nathaniel Ward, Southwood Smith, Louis MacNeice, Peter Cundall, and Tovah Martin

It's the 1st of April - April Fools Day!

April is derived from the word aperit- which means to open.

Yet, every Prince fan, or northern gardener, knows that, sometimes it snows in April.

So, April …

00:10:01 | Mon 01 Apr 2019