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.

August 20, 2026 Edgar Guest, Cora Coralina, Matthew Dickman and Lilac, The Weekend Gardener by Henry Agg, and Chase Twichell 08/20/2026

August 19, 2026 James Robertson, Josephine Jacobsen, Seed Catalogues and Next Summer, A Year in a Small Garden by Frances Tophill, and Gustave Caillebotte 08/19/2026

August 18, 2026 Meriwether Lewis, Olav Hauge, Marion Angus, Notes from the Garden by Ruth Petrie, and Brian Aldiss 08/18/2026

August 17, 2026 William Bliss Harris, Myrtle Reed, Lew Sarett, Cottage Gardens by Kathryn Bradley-Hole, and Gene Stratton-Porter 08/17/2026

August 14, 2026 Richard Jefferies, Mirabel Osler, Gary Larson, Lush Life: Food and Drinks from the Garden by Valerie Rice, and Floyd Alonzo McClure 08/14/2026

August 13, 2026 Philip Bourke Marston, Mary Hunter Austin, Carroll Watson Rankin, Garden Portraits: Experiences of Natural Beauty by Larry Lederman, and Hewett Cottrell Watson 08/13/2026

August 12, 2026 William Blake, Frank Swinnerton, William Goldman, Rattan by Lulu Lytle, and Thomas Birch Freeman 08/12/2026

August 11, 2026 Ponce-Denis Écouchard Lebrun, Martin Johnson Heade, Enid Blyton, The Nature of Decorating by Jenny Rose-Innes, and Andrew Pettigrew 08/11/2026

August 10, 2026 Jean Kilby Rorison, Laurence Binyon, Suzanne Collins, Be Seated by Laurie Olin, and Rica Erickson 08/10/2026

August 7, 2026 Andreas Marggraf, Henry Perrine, Emil Nolde, An Englishman's Home by Tom Hart Dyke, and Lucy May Cranwell 08/07/2026

August 6, 2026 John Parkinson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mary Esther Murtfeldt, The Head Gardeners by Toby Musgrave, and Frank Cabot 08/06/2026

August 5, 2026 Guy de Maupassant, Miriam Rothschild, Wendell Berry, Grow and Gather by Grace Alexander, and Margery Fish 08/05/2026

August 4, 2026 Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Henry Hudson, Robert Hayden, Adventures in Eden by Carolyn Mullet, and Francis Pennell 08/04/2026

August 3, 2026 Juan de Arellano, Graceanna Lewis, Martha Stewart, A Year at Clove Brook Farm by Christopher Spitzmiller, and Rupert Brooke 08/03/2026

July 31, 2026 Simon Steward, Mary Vaux Walcott, Harold Olmo, Of Gardens: Selected Essays by Paula Deitz, and Rosalie de Constant 07/31/2026

July 30, 2026 Emily Brontë, James Leal Greenleaf, Alicia Amherst, Garden Stories edited by Diana Secker Tesdell, and Charles Bridgeman 07/30/2026

July 29, 2026 William Beebe, Thistle Harris, Sten Nadolny, An Anthology of Garden Writing by Ursula Buchan, and Edith Coleman 07/29/2026

July 28, 2026 Abraham Cowley, Harriet Louise Keeler, Andrew Jackson Downing, RHS The Garden Anthology by Ursula Buchan, and Beatrix Potter 07/28/2026

July 27, 2026 Thomas Campbell, Alexandre Dumas fils, Alan Chadwick, Garden Voices: A Year of Gardeners' Writing by Claire Masset, and Edith Marion Patch 07/27/2026

July 24, 2026 Lord Dunsany, Zelda Fitzgerald, Anna Maurizio, The Living Garden by George Ordish, and Carl Theodor Sørensen 07/24/2026

July 23, 2026 Coventry Patmore, Raymond Chandler, Martha Brookes Hutcheson, The Pleasure Garden by Anne Scott-James and Osbert Lancaster, and William Burchell 07/23/2026

July 22, 2026 William Bartram, Peter Beales, Ursula Buchan, Siftings by Jens Jensen, and Cardale Babington 07/22/2026

July 21, 2026 Jacques Wirtz, Josephine Kablick, Tess Gallagher, To Everything There Is a Season by Thalassa Cruso, and Peter Walker 07/21/2026

July 20, 2026 Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, David Nelson, Katharine Stewart, The Making of a Garden by Rosemary Verey, and Louisa Anne Meredith 07/20/2026

July 17, 2026 Clarence Bicknell, Rubens Peale, Susan Wittig Albert, A Breath from Elsewhere by Mirabel Osler, and Kate Bradbury 07/17/2026

July 16, 2026 Fletcher Steele, Hu Xiansu, Lady Eve Balfour, Green Thoughts and Memories by Marina Schinz, and William Hamilton Gibson 07/16/2026

July 15, 2026 Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, Emily Stackhouse, Lady Georgina Vernon, A Moment in Time by Kathryn Herman, and Florence Yoch 07/15/2026

July 14, 2026 Henri Gaussen, John Aston Warder, Irving Stone, The Self-Taught Gardener by Sydney Eddison, and Theresa Earle 07/14/2026

July 13, 2026 Joseph-François Soleirol, Takeo Shiota, John Clare, A Patchwork Garden by Sydney Eddison, and Jane Webb Loudon 07/13/2026

July 10, 2026 Eva Ekeblad, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Jean Kerr, Gardens of the Wine Country by Molly Chappellet and Richard Tracy, and Marcel Proust 07/10/2026