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.
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1801 William Henry Seward "Sue-erd", an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, is born.
He was also featured in the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin called Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of A...
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1497 John Cabot, the Canadian Explorer, set sail from Bristol, England, on his ship, Matthew.
He was looking for a route to the west, and he found it. He discovered parts of North America on behalf of Henry VII of England.
And in case you're...
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1772 Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, German botanist, is born.
Karl Friedrich von Gaertner had a fantastic last name; Gaertner translates to mean gardener.
Karl was a second-generation gardener. His dad was Jo...
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1766 John Mulso writes to his friend English naturalist, Gilbert White, in Selborne
Gilbert White was born in 1720, So he was 46 when he received this letter from John.
At the time. Gilbert had been keeping...
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1575 Birth of Jakob Böhme, German original thinker.
Jakob Böhme did a great deal of thinking and writing, not only about theology and Christianity but also about the natural world.
Here's what Mary Oliver...
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1597 On this day, The Herbal, by the English herbalist John Gerard, was first published.
Today the book is considered a plagiarization of Rembert Dodoens's herbal published over forty years earlier.
In his book, John shared over 800 species ...
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1791 On this day, Martha Ballard recorded her work as an herbalist and midwife.
For 27 years, Martha kept a journal of her work as the town healer and midwife for Hallowell, Maine. In all, Martha assisted with 816 births.
Today, Martha's mar...
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1627 Birth of John Ray, English naturalist and writer.
In 1660, he published a catalog of Cambridge plants.
John developed his own system for classifying plants based on their observed similarities and differences. So he was clearly thinking...
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1660 On this day, the first meeting occurred of what would become The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge.
The Royal Society's Latin motto, 'Nullius in verba,' translates to "Take nobody's word for it." The motto reminded...
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1714 Birth of William Shenstone, English poet, and landscape gardener.
In the early 1740s, Shenstone inherited his family's dairy farm, which he transformed into the Leasowes (pronounced 'lezzoes'). The transfer of ownership lit a fire under...
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1771 On this day, heavy rains caused the ancient raised peat bog known as the Solway Moss to burst over its earthen banks and flowed down into a valley covering four hundred acres of farmland.
The next day, Solway Moss covered the surroundin...
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1643 Birth of Sir Jean Chardin, French jeweler and traveler.
Jean is remembered for his ten-volume work, The Travels of Sir John Chardin, which is considered one of the most important early accounts of Persia and the Near East.
In Travels, J...
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1791 On this day, Australia's first thriving grapevine was planted.
The First Fleet's Captain Arthur Phillip brought grape cuttings from South America and South Africa and produced a small vineyard at Far...
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1771 Birth of Xavier Bichat ("bee'shah"), French anatomist and pathologist.
Remembered as the father of modern histology, or the study of tissues. In his work, Xavier did not use a microscope and still discovered 21 distinct types of tissues...
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1802 Birth of George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter.
George co-founded the daily New York Evening Mirror with Nathaniel Parker Willis. George and Nathaniel also started Town and Country magazine. Nathaniel once wrot...
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1747 Birth of Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ("do-Shane"), French botanist, gardener, and professor at Versailles.
A specialist in strawberries and gourds, Duchesne was a student of Bernard de Jussieu at the Royal Garden in Paris.
A plant pionee...
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Today is Garlic Lovers Day
Garlic, or stinking rose, is a member of the lily family. Onions, leeks, and shallots are also in the family. All alliums are reactive to the amount of daylight they receive, so a great way to think about the garli...
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1852 On this day, Henry David Thoreau writes in his journal.
The maples are reddening, and birches yellowing.
The mouse-ear in the shade in the middle of the day... looks as if the frost still lay on it.
Bumblebees are on the Aster... and ...
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National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day
Look at the Leaves Day
1877 Birth of Otto Emery Jennings, former curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and devoted scientist.
In 1904, Jennings started as the custodian at the Carnegie Mus...
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