The Daily Gardener

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 botanist who posed as a Dutchman to botanize in Japan. We'll hear some thoughts on November from one of my favorite garden writers And, we Grow That Garden Library with one of the best books on Gardening for Butterflies I'll talk about straightening your ornamental trees...

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. We'll hear the Garden Poem that celebrates the end of Apple Picking Season. We Grow That Garden Library with a book from the author who was pulled out of her grief by nature walks with Marion Satterlee.  I'll talk about an on-trend and portable way to display your houseplants...

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 about the mists of November from two of the world's best nature writers. We Grow That Garden Library with the book written by the wife of the author of Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web....

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 botanical illustrator for her garden books in the hospital as she was battling influenza. We'll hear some glorious thoughts on November from the author of “Butternut Wisdom.” We Grow That Garden Library with a book that helps us grow more by going vertical in our gardens...

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 sought after plants of the 1800s. We'll hear some words about the falling leaves and autumn senescence. We Grow That Garden Library with a book that is so gorgeous that some folks buy copies to cut out the pages to frame them....

 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 bred a new species of sugar cane and the Arizona Palm - yes, it does exist! We'll hear some November Poems.   We Grow That Garden Library with a book that helps us savor the garden through our five senses. I'll talk about the task some gardeners regret forgetting...

Today we celebrate the botanist who is considered the Father of Taxonomy and the young Landscape Architect who learned by taking weekly walking tours of gardens. We'll learn about the botanist who saved Kew Garden and the most famous garden designer you’ve never heard of We'll listen to a little garden folklore for November and an amusing poem about daylight savings We Grow That Garden Library with today's book which features the gardens of Russell Page...

Today we celebrate the gardener who had his home and garden trashed by the Russian Czar and the poet who wrote one of his most famous poems under the plum tree in his garden. We'll learn about the American Landscape Architect who never lived to see the big park he dreamed of, and we'll learn about the horticulturist who created the first International Flower show in NYC. We'll hear the October Poem about woodbines (or honeysuckle). We Grow That Garden Library with an herb-based cookbook...

Today we celebrate the impressionist Landscape painter who included kitchen gardens as a subject & the botanist who gave a speech in 1916 about his four rules of home landscaping. We'll learn about the English botanist who saved many varieties of Japanese cherry from extinction & the botanist who braved the destruction of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to save plant specimens. We'll hear the Poem called "A Song of October" that debuted in 1890...

Today we celebrate the botanist who was allowed to tend a garden while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London. We'll learn about the Pioneer botanist of Tennessee and the botanist who used his love of trees to shape an optimistic view of humanity. We'll also celebrate Jamie Taggert, the young Scottish botanist, who set out on this day in 2013 for Vietnam but sadly never returned to his beloved home at the Linn Botanical Garden. We'll hear the Carl Sandburg poem...

Today we celebrate the Swiss botanist who is the father of geographical botany & the American botanist who took a 500-mile nature walk for her honeymoon. And, just in time for Halloween, we'll learn about the botanist who was the Queen of slime mold. And, we're coming up on the 200th anniversary of the botanist who discovered the Blue Columbine. We'll hear one of my favorite poems about Octob er with the line, "The leaves by hundreds came." ...

Today we celebrate the Frenchman who designed the very first secateurs or pruners and the Italian orphan who grew up to discover the corpse flower. We Grow That Garden Library with a cookbook called Flowers in the Kitchen by Susan Belsinger. I'll talk about gathering up your empty containers and pots as well as protecting any ironwork, and then we'll travel back in time to 1875 to hear some thoughts about Autumn Work in the garden....

Today we celebrate the amazing botanical illustrator Marianne North and Margaret Owen, the English gardener we lost five years ago today. We'll hear Dickinson's Nature 27 poem - with the famous line "I'll put a trinket on." We'll Grow That Garden Library with today's book The Daylily by John P. Peat and Ted L. Petit. I'll talk about the perennials you can cut back right now & wrap things up with a sweet story about the rose poem that went viral in 1885.

Today we celebrate the botanist who disappeared in Australia 171 years ago & the British Museum lichenologist who was never put on the payroll. We'll learn about the French botanist who loved North American trees & the Los Angeles woman who found a botany job from an employment agency. Hear some beautiful prose about bluebirds in autumn, "they linger like the last leaves on the tree". Grow That Garden Library with a book by Joyce Russell. I'll talk about harvesting the black walnut...

Today we celebrate the daughter of a millionaire who found solace in nature & the refreshing approach of one of the country's top naturalists. We learn about the discovery of vanilla& we'll commemorate the Doctor's Pit where David Douglas died. We'll hear the oft-quoted poem that begins, "The scarlet of maples can shake me like a cry of bugles going by," and we Grow That Garden Library with a new book for 2019 called The Sanctuary of My Garden - Poems by Fotoula Reynolds...