Jennifer Ebeling

The Daily Gardener

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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.

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Author

Jennifer Ebeling

Episodes

April 10, 2026 Celia Fiennes, Mary Hiester Reid, Bella Akhmadulina, The Art of Pressed Flowers and Leaves by Jennie Ashmore, and John Bartram 10.04.2026 15:06

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes It sure feels like spring. The light stays longer now. Afternoons warm fast. Coats come off before you quite trust it. And still, the mornings tell the truth. A thin rim of frost along the edge of the lawn....

April 9, 2026 Joseph Trimble Rothrock, Phebe Lankester, Dan Pearson, The Naturally Beautiful Garden by Kathryn Bradley-Hole, and Winifred Fortescue 09.04.2026 13:11

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Hi there, and welcome to The Daily Gardener — an almanac of garden history, literature, and small botanical joys. I'm Jennifer Ebeling, and today is April 9. April has a way of correcting us. You walk outsid...

April 8, 2026 John Claudius Loudon, Thomas Drummond, Barbara Kingsolver, Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies by Maria Noël Groves, and Georgiana Molloy 08.04.2026 13:39

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes April has settled in now. And the flowering shrubs are beginning to prove it. Magnolia first. Those thick, velvet buds holding their breath until one early week in spring coaxes them open — white, cupped pet...

April 7, 2026 William Wordsworth, David Fairchild, W. Earl Hall, A Heritage of Flowers by Tovah Martin, and Polly Hill 07.04.2026 9:23

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Early April can feel unruly. Growth everywhere. Ideas everywhere. The garden waking up faster than we can keep pace. This is the season of return. Of things rising again — not once, but in fields. A hillside...

April 6, 2026 Johann Gottfried Zinn, Kurt Bluemel, Ram Dass, The Pressed Flower Handbook by Sarah Holland, and Albrecht Dürer 06.04.2026 13:49

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Early April brings the garden back in pieces. Bare soil softens. Grass greens at the edges. Perennials push up in tight fists. Nothing is finished. Nothing fully formed. Beneath the soil, bulbs are dividing...

April 3, 2026 Graham Stuart Thomas, Elva Lawton, George Herbert, Thoughtful Gardening by Robin Lane Fox, and Frère Marie-Victorin 03.04.2026 13:07

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes There's a particular mood that arrives in early April. A kind of garden giddiness. The light feels generous. The air smells possible. And suddenly, everything seems like it might work this year. Plans multip...

April 2, 2026 Maria Sibylla Merian, Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd, Leonard Harman Robbins, Writing the Garden by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, and Helen Smith Bevington 02.04.2026 11:07

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Early April can be misleading. The ground is still wet. The air still sharp enough to make staying inside feel reasonable. It doesn't always look like anything is happening yet. And that's when it's easy to...

April 1, 2026 Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill, George Edward Post, Sara Teasdale, Good in a Bed by Ursula Buchan, and William Jackson Hooker Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill 01.04.2026 13:34

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes April arrives after a long wait. All winter, the calendar has been leaning toward this day. April 1. The place where spring is supposed to begin. And often, the morning comes cold. Gray. Wind pressing hard,...

March 31, 2026 Dietrich Brandis, William Waldorf Astor, Andrew Marvell, Henry Mitchell on Gardening by Henry Mitchell, and Nora Lilian Alcock 31.03.2026 11:53

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Some gardeners work close to home. A bed. A border. A narrow strip of soil you know by heart. You notice when something shifts there. When a plant leans. When a stem breaks the surface. When the ground final...

March 30, 2026 Sir Henry Wotton, Franz Wilhelm Sieber, Robert Creeley, Two Gardeners by Katharine Sergeant White and Elizabeth Lawrence, and Isabelle Bowen Henderson 30.03.2026 11:16

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Late March can be a little unsettling in the garden. You're looking for signs, for proof that things are moving. But most days, the beds still look unchanged. The shrubs haven't said a word. And the plants y...

March 27, 2026 Jane Colden, Katharine Stewart, Michael Bruce, Rhapsody in Green by Beverley Nichols, and Anna Antoinette Weber-van Bosse 27.03.2026 11:04

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Late March is a season lived largely on faith. Not blind faith, practiced faith. The kind that comes from staying with the season long enough to notice when forces have quietly aligned. The sun is higher now...

March 26, 2026 Conrad Gessner, Lady Anne Brewis, A E Housman, Sunlight on the Lawn by Beverley Nichols, and John Meadows 26.03.2026 14:31

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Some people don't just enjoy nature. They are claimed by it. They follow plants into fields and gardens, up hillsides, through seasons and decades, until what begins as curiosity quietly becomes a life's wor...

March 25, 2026 Nicolas Robert, Robert Bentley, Henry Arthur Bright, Laughter on the Stairs by Beverley Nichols, and May Morris 25.03.2026 15:21

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes The garden is one of the few places where we give our time freely. Our attention. Our patience. Our care. And somehow, that care comes back to us. In flowers left on a pillow. In plants grown for healing. In...

March 24, 2026 Mark Catesby, Humphry Repton, Fern Leaf Garden Column Chicago Tribune, Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols, and William Morris 24.03.2026 10:13

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Today is about the work behind the beauty. A plant hunter paddling inland in a cypress canoe. A designer who invented the original "before and after." A houseplant columnist who sounds like your smartest fri...

March 23, 2026 John Bartram, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Arabella Elizabeth Roupell, Down the Garden Path by Beverley Nichols, and William Taylor 23.03.2026 11:53

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Today is about the twisty lives of gardeners. A garden history icon. A founding gardener with a ruined reputation. A botanical artist discovered by chance. A new gardener who wrote one book and became belove...

March 20, 2026 Johan Martin Christian Lange, Muriel Stuart, Henrik Ibsen, A Year at Great Dixter by Christopher Lloyd, and Adriana Hoffmann 20.03.2026 10:27

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Today is the vernal equinox, the moment when light and dark stand equal in a single day. Outside, the snow still lingers at the fence line, but the sun hangs higher now. In the garden, this is a threshold da...

March 19, 2026 Arthur John Cronquist, Zafar Futehally, Charles Sauriol, Sissinghurst: The Dream Garden by Tim Richardson, and William Allingham 19.03.2026 11:31

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Mid-March is when gardeners start activating. The light is brighter now. Longer. There's a glow to it, a quality we don't have in the fall. The ground is still cold. But not so cold that nothing can begin. P...

March 18, 2026 Harriet Barnes Pratt, Percy Thrower, Jean Ingelow, A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow, and the Sego Lily 18.03.2026 16:33

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes By mid-March, gardeners begin to look outward again. Not just at the weather, but at the edges of the yard. At the street. People start to emerge from their houses. More neighbors are outside, taking walks a...

March 17, 2026 Anders Dahl, Ellen Hutchins, Jean Ingelow, A Garden in the Hills by Katharine Stewart, and St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Traditions 17.03.2026 17:18

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Today, a lot of people are looking for green. Something bright enough to pin on a coat. Something that signals belonging at a glance. But in the garden, green doesn't announce itself that way. It stays low....

March 16, 2026 Anna Atkins, John Bradbury, Sully Prudhomme, British Gardens by Monty Don, and Davie Poplar Jr. 16.03.2026 11:35

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes March is a month of holding on. We label. We press. We photograph. We graft. Not because things are finished, but because they aren't. This is the time of year when gardeners begin to notice what might slip...

March 13, 2026 Susan Delano McKelvey, Nicole de Vésian, Marjorie Blamey, Southern Women, Southern Landscapes by Judith W. Page and Elise L. Smith, and Lilla Irvine Leach 13.03.2026 12:59

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes In the garden, the late bloomers are often the strongest ones. They wait. They survive the long cold. They open when the season is ready for them. Today's stories follow women like that. Because the garden k...

March 12, 2026 Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joseph Gaertner, Gabriele D'Annunzio, A History of Women in the Garden by Twigs Way, and Mary Howitt 12.03.2026 11:57

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Some gardeners love the show of it — the bloom, the flourish, the instant reward. And some gardeners love the study of it. The pages. The marginal notes. The penciled corrections. The way a garden keeps teac...

March 11, 2026 William James Beal, Jens Christian Clausen, Katharine S. White, Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes by Judith B. Tankard, and Torquato Tasso 11.03.2026 13:10

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes There's a certain kind of person who loves a long view. The ones who keep notes. The ones who label envelopes. The ones who plant something they might never see in full. Today is for them. For gardeners who...

March 10, 2026 William Etty, Rebecca Merritt Austin, Ina Coolbrith, Women Garden Designers: 1900 to the Present by Kristina Taylor, and William Bartram 10.03.2026 9:32

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Not every season announces itself. Sometimes spring comes quietly, noticed first by people who have been drumming their fingers looking out the window, or flipping through the seed catalogs over and over aga...

March 9, 2026 Vita Sackville-West, Lafayette Frederick, Berton Braley, Women Gardeners by Yvonne Cuthbertson, and Will Geer 09.03.2026 11:36

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Some gardens greet you in the front yard. Some have a gate you can see from the street. Some can be viewed from kitchens or patios, or porches. But the gardens that change us most are often harder to see. Th...