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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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Botanical History On This Day
1854 Danske ["DAN-sker"] Dandridge, poet, historian, and garden writer, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1937 Julia Wilmotte [will-MOT] Henshaw, Canadian botanist, geographer, writer, and political activist, died.
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1793 Archibald Menzies, the Scottish surgeon-botanist, reluctantly departs Santa Barbara aboard the HMS Discovery during Vancouver's expedition.
1810 Asa Gray is born. He was a figure who would become America's preeminent botanist and o...
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1806 William Wordsworth received a life-changing invitation from Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont to design and build a winter garden at her estate in an old gravel quarry.
This unique request would lead to what Wordsworth later called "th...
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1687 Eleanor "Nell" Gwynn, died at the age of 37 in her Pall Mall house in London.
Known as "pretty, witty Nell" by diarist Samuel Pepys, she was one of the most celebrated figures of the Restoration period and a long-time mistress of K...
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1849 A most extraordinary presentation took place at Windsor Castle.
Imagine, if you will, standing in the grand halls of Windsor Castle as Joseph Paxton (PAX-ton) presented a massive leaf and exquisite blossom of the Victoria Amazonic...
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1840 Auguste Rodin (oh-GOOST roh-DAN), the great French sculptor, was born.
A man who found the divine in both marble and flowers - Auguste Rodin would ultimately earn the title of the father of modern sculpture.
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1872 William Copeland McCalla, Canadian botanist and photographer, is born. McCalla would become one of Alberta's most influential botanists, combining his passion for photography with his love of plants to create an extraordinary legac...
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1783 General George Washington penned his historic Farewell Address to his troops at Rockingham, marking a pivotal moment in American history. Today, this historic site continues to tell its story not just through its architecture, but ...
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1868 The botanist and garden writer Alice Lounsberry is born in New York City.
1885 The renowned British botanist and explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward was born in Manchester, England.
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1801 On this day, America lost one of its pioneering botanists, Humphry Marshall, the "Father of American Dendrology."
1869 Ellen Shipman, a woman who found her voice in the whispers of flowers and ...
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1745 The English botanist John Bradby Blake [BRAD-bee BLAKE] is born.
Though he lived a tragically short life - dying at just twelve days after his 28th birthday - John left behind an extraordinary legacy that bridges East and West thro...
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1857 John Joly (pronounced "JOLLY") was born on this day in Hollywood House near the village of Bracknagh (pronounced "BRACK-nuh") in County Offaly, Ireland.
Joly was an Irish polymath whose profound connection to nature led him not onl...
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1795 John Keats is born into a world he would later capture
through some of the most vivid botanical imagery in English poetry.
1895 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, the popular American writer, is born in Randolph, Massachusetts.
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1763 Heinrich Cotta [HINE-rick COT-ah] is born beneath the open sky of Kleine Zillbach [KLINE-eh TSIL-bock], Germany.
1897 Evelyn Mary Booth is born in Annamoe [AN-ah-moh], County Wicklow, Ireland.
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1811 Texas botanist Charles Wright is born on this day in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
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1798 Count Hippolyte François Jaubert, a fascinating figure who bridged the worlds of politics and botany in 19th century France, is born.
1871 South African plantsman Harold Basil Christian [KRIS-tee-un] is born. His journey into botan...
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1776 Patrick Neill, British printer and horticulturalist, is born.
1840 Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, Classical Scholar, is born.
1909 Tyge Wittrock Böcher [TEE-guh VIT-rock BER-ker], Danish botanist, evolutionary biologist, plant eco...
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1830 Marianne North, the Victorian Artist Who Painted the World's Flora, is born.
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1796 William Casson, English botanist, seed merchant, and local historian, was born.
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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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