The Daily Gardener
The Daily Gardener is a weekday podcast celebrating garden history, literature, and the small botanical stories that shape how we garden today. Each episode follows an "on this day" format, uncovering the people, plants, books, and moments that have quietly influenced gardens across time. New episodes are released Monday through Friday, and each show features a thoughtfully chosen garden book.
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Spring always feels a little unsettled to me until I plant the kitchen garden.
It sits just outside the deck door.
Close enough that I can step out barefoot with a pair of scissors in my hand.
The thyme...
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The nighttime temperatures are finally holding.
Another garden season is opening wide before us.
This is when I buy the biggest Boston ferns I can find for the front porch.
The morning glory seeds go in...
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The garden writer Jamaica Kincaid once said,
"I always take this personally —
I think a frost is something someone is doing to me.
Only me."
If your spring is still cold and s...
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May is National Salad Month.
And if you've never grown a salad garden, this is the perfect time to begin.
An honest salad garden starts smaller than you might think.
Soft bib lettuce.
Red and green.
Mus...
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On this day in 1950, the English gardener Vita Sackville-West sat down with her garden journal and noticed something she couldn't let go of.
In her earnestness for horticulture, Vita wrote that snobbish...
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I've been thinking about where we go to do our best thinking.
A lot of people put their desk by a window that overlooks the garden.
Or they carry a notebook outside and sit in a shady spot and let the i...
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Today is Plant Something Day.
And I know — you probably don't need a holiday to tell you to plant something.
You've been planting for weeks.
But I like what this day can be if you let it.
Not just — pla...
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Mid-May mornings in Minnesota come early now.
The light is already there when you walk out.
The soil is warm enough to hold what you give it.
And if you're lucky, there's someone beside you — handing yo...
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Every gardener has a lost garden.
Maybe it was your grandmother's.
Maybe it was the one you left behind when you had to move.
Maybe it's a spot you drove by last week.
Just to check.
And now barely reco...
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Here's an exercise to try.
Take a minute today and write a letter that describes your garden.
What do you love about it?
What do you enjoy doing there?
What are your favorite flowers?
What areas give yo...
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This is the time of year to throw a spring garden party.
It doesn't have to be fancy.
A few chairs.
A pitcher of something cold.
And a neighbor you haven't seen since the leaves came down.
The garden do...
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For the past week, I've been working on dividing plants.
Redesigning and refreshing my cottage garden.
Little by little.
Anyway, I potted up extras.
And set them on the curb with a "free" sign.
They wer...
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If you got plants from your kids this Mother's Day, here's a thought.
Don't plant them all at once with everyone together.
Plant them with one kid at a time.
I called it YAMA time.
You And Me Alone time...
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Mother's Day is this Sunday.
And if you're a gardener, you've probably had the experience of someone you love showing up with a plant you don't love.
It happens every year.
The intention is beautiful.
T...
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And here's something a little different to carry into the garden today.
A riddle from the nineteenth century:
"My first we all possess; my second we all should gain; my whole you'll surely ...
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All things are difficult before they're easy.
And I think about that every May.
Because right now, the garden is all effort.
You're hauling bags of soil. You're staking things. You're tidying up. You're...
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I ran across a little poem the other day by Thomas Edward Brown, who was born on the Isle of Man on this day in 1830.
This poem is what Thomas is remembered for.
It's called My Garden, and it opens with...
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Early May is a strange time in the garden.
Nothing announces itself.
A branch that was bare three days ago now has leaves the size of a squirrel's ear.
The groundcover that seemed nonexistent last week ...
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It's the last day of April.
And if you've been waiting for the right moment to tuck pansies into a pot or a border, this is it.
Pansies love a cool spring.
They want these exact mornings—bright but not ...
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It's the last day of April.
And if you've been waiting for the right moment to tuck pansies into a pot or a border, this is it.
Pansies love a cool spring. They want these exact mornings—bright but not ...
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