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October 24, 2024 The Great Indoor Houseplant Migration, Marianne North, A Vermont October Snow Story, Margaret Owen, A Life in the Garden by Barbara Damrosch, and Henry Arthur Bright's October Garden Musings

The Daily Gardener

Release Date: 10/24/2024

February 4, 2026 Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Charles Schaffer, Alfred Austin, The Victory Garden by Rhys Bowen, and Henri Dutrochet

The Daily Gardener

Subscribe | | | | Support The Daily Gardener Connect for FREE! | Today’s Show Notes There are seasons when the garden doesn’t reward us right away. You do the work. You keep going. And the bloom comes later. Sometimes much later. Today’s stories belong to that delayed kind of flowering — lives and labors that didn’t announce themselves, but waited quietly, until someone was ready to notice. Today’s Garden History 1821 Frederick Goddard Tuckerman was born. Frederick entered the world in Boston, into comfort and education. But the life he chose was narrower — and...

February 3, 2026 Gertrude Stein, Hilda Murrell, Rumi, The In the Garden Trilogy by Nora Roberts, and Adele Lewis Grant

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Subscribe | | | | Support The Daily Gardener Connect for FREE! | Today’s Show Notes February is a month that keeps its secrets close. The garden looks quiet now. Beds lie flat. Specimens above ground chilled into behaving themselves. But nothing here is finished. Everything is waiting. Gardens are good at mysteries — with seeds hidden on purpose, roots busy underground, and plans and plants that don’t announce themselves. Today’s Garden History 1874 Gertrude Stein was born. She’s remembered for her language — for repetition, for rhythm, for meaning that circles back...

February 2, 2026 Franz Ludwig Späth, Elizabeth Pitts Lamboll, William Rose Benét, Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen, and Charlie Chaplin

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Subscribe | | | | Support The Daily Gardener Connect for FREE! | Today’s Show Notes February second is Candlemas Day — an old turning point in winter, heavy with weather lore. “If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight.” In other words, don’t be fooled by a little light. The season still has something to say. Today’s stories live right there — between what has endured, and what is just beginning to stir. Today’s Garden History 1913 Franz Ludwig Späth died in Berlin. The Späth family had been cultivating trees since 1720 — six...

January 30, 2026 Elizabeth Gamble Wirt, Louise Beebe Wilder, H. Fred Dale, Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden by Emily Whaley, and Asa Gray

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Subscribe | | | | Support The Daily Gardener Connect for FREE! | Today’s Show Notes Late January doesn’t ask for spectacle. It asks for gratitude. We’ve made it through one of the hardest months of the year. This is a good moment to take a quiet inventory — the books we’ve returned to, the garden plans beginning to form, the plant names we can still recall, the gardeners we’ve connected with while our own gardens remain at rest. And it’s a fitting pause for stories about attention — the kind that lingers, the kind that remembers, the kind that shapes how we...

January 29, 2026 William Jack, David Douglas, Henry David Thoreau, My Garden by Jacqueline van der Kloet, and Ebenezer Howard

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Subscribe | | | | Support The Daily Gardener Connect for FREE! | Today’s Show Notes Late January doesn’t bring much drama. No big turning point. No clear signal. Instead, it gives us time. Time to look closely at what’s already been shaped — by weather, by decisions, by people who came before us. And today holds stories about distance — how far some people went for plants, and how others tried to bring nature closer to where people live. Today’s Garden History 1795 William Jack was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He came from a scholarly family and moved quickly through...

January 28, 2026 Leslie Young Correthers, Catherine Hauberg Sweeney, Dorothy Wordsworth, A Year in the Life of Beth Chatto's Gardens by Fergus Garrett, and Winter Garden Courage

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Subscribe | | | | Support The Daily Gardener Connect for FREE! | Today’s Show Notes Late January can feel like a long-held breath. Not dramatic. Just persistent. The garden is still. But it isn’t idle. It’s watching the light. Measuring the cold. Noticing — quietly — the most minute shifts in temperature and day length. And sometimes, winter leaves us a story that feels almost unbelievable. On this day in 1887, at the Coleman ranch near Fort Keogh (KEY-oh), Montana, snowflakes were reported so large they were described as “bigger than milk pans.” Some were said to...

January 27, 2026 Giuseppe Verdi, Felix Gillet, Jean Kilby Rorison, Cultivating Sacred Space by Elizabeth Murray, and Rafflesia

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Subscribe | | | | Support The Daily Gardener Connect for FREE! | Today’s Show Notes Late January has its own kind of quiet. Not the hush of fresh snow, but the steady, unshowy silence of things holding their shape. In the garden, this is a month of endurance. Roots working without applause. Branches imperceptibly changing. The outdoor world takes in the smallest shifts in light and temperature, preparing to awaken and grow. Today’s stories carry that feeling forward: a composer who needed the country to write, a nurseryman who made abundance from stripped ground, and a...

January 26, 2026 Alister Clark, J. Henry Chesterton, Eloise Ray, Take Chelsea Home by Chris Young, and Jacqueline du Pré

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Subscribe | | | | Support The Daily Gardener Connect for FREE! | Today’s Show Notes January has a way of making everything feel more honest. The garden is not performing. It is resting. This is the month of silhouettes — hedges reduced to outline, paths only faintly visible beneath the snow, branches writing their thin handwriting against the sky. It is a fitting day for stories like these: of people and gardens shaped by patience, of beauty made to endure, and of the quiet satisfaction that comes from bringing something living safely home. Today’s Garden History 1864...

January 23, 2026 Peter Joseph Lenné, Gertrude Penfield Seiberling, Elizabeth Lawrence, The Unsung Season by Sydney Eddison, and Ken Nakazawa

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Subscribe | | | | Support The Daily Gardener Connect for FREE! | Today’s Show Notes January is a month that strips things back. The garden shows us structure instead of spectacle. Paths without flowers. Trees without leaves. Design without distraction. That makes today’s stories especially fitting, because they are about people who believed gardens should hold meaning, even when nothing is in bloom. Today’s Garden History 1866 Peter Joseph Lenné died at the age of seventy-six. Lenné was one of the most important landscape architects of the nineteenth century, though you...

January 22, 2026 Francis Bacon, Francis Guthrie, Winter Garden Design at Anglesey Abbey, People With Dirty Hands by Robin Chotzinoff, and Bill and Ben

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Subscribe | | | | Support The Daily Gardener Connect for FREE! | Today’s Show Notes Before we step fully into today’s garden history, a brief note from the weather ledger: 1985 A deep cold wave swept through Florida, destroying nearly ninety percent of the state’s citrus crop. Years of growth, lost in a single night. It is a reminder gardeners understand well: abundance is always provisional. Today’s Garden History 1561 Francis Bacon was born. He gave us one of the most enduring garden essays ever written: Of Gardens. Bacon did not treat gardening as a pleasant aside. He...

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