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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Jennifer Ebeling

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January 30, 2026 Elizabeth Gamble Wirt, Louise Beebe Wilder, H. Fred Dale, Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden by Emily Whaley, and Asa Gray 30.01.2026 9:06

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 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...

January 29, 2026 William Jack, David Douglas, Henry David Thoreau, My Garden by Jacqueline van der Kloet, and Ebenezer Howard 29.01.2026 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 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 befo...

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 28.01.2026 11:13

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 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...

January 27, 2026 Giuseppe Verdi, Felix Gillet, Jean Kilby Rorison, Cultivating Sacred Space by Elizabeth Murray, and Rafflesia 27.01.2026 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 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....

January 26, 2026 Alister Clark, J. Henry Chesterton, Eloise Ray, Take Chelsea Home by Chris Young, and Jacqueline du Pré 26.01.2026 12:32

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 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...

January 23, 2026 Peter Joseph Lenné, Gertrude Penfield Seiberling, Elizabeth Lawrence, The Unsung Season by Sydney Eddison, and Ken Nakazawa 23.01.2026 11:42

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 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...

January 22, 2026 Francis Bacon, Francis Guthrie, Winter Garden Design at Anglesey Abbey, People With Dirty Hands by Robin Chotzinoff, and Bill and Ben 22.01.2026 10:36

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 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 grow...

January 21, 2026 Charles Edward Faxon, William Roy Genders, Christian Dior, A Year of Garden-Inspired Living by Linda Vater, and Squirrel Appreciation Day 21.01.2026 9:33

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 This is the season when gardeners live a little more in the imagination. We watch winter light move across bare branches, notice the architecture of trees, and make plans we can't quite act on yet. So today...

January 20, 2026 Henry Danvers, Thomas Serle Jerrold, Eliot Wadsworth II, The Winter Garden by Richard Rosenfeld, and Napoleon Bonaparte 20.01.2026 7:14

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, January is a month of plans more than action. Seed catalogs pile up. Lists are made. Dreams are revised. So it's a fitting day to remember the people who made gardens possible — not always by...

January 19, 2026 Alice Eastwood, G. Ledyard Stebbins, Janus and the Snowdrop, The New Romantic Garden by Jo Thompson, and Harris Olson 19.01.2026 9:08

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 January is a quieter season in the garden. The beds are resting. The work is mostly invisible. This is the time of year when gardeners turn to stories — to the people who noticed plants closely, saved what m...

November 19, 2024 November Gardens Between Activity and Rest, Helen Hunt Jackson, Danske Dandridge, Julia Wilmotte Henshaw, Outside In by Sean A. Pritchard, and Amy Baik Lee's Garden Closing 19.11.2024 28:33

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community 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 p...

November 18, 2024 A Century of November Garden Reflections, Archibald Menzies, Asa Gray, New Nordic Gardens by Annika Zetterman, and Beatrix Farrand Plans the Rose Garden for the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) 18.11.2024 29:17

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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 w...

November 15, 2024 Garden Musings, William Wordsworth, Georgia O'Keefe, Around the House and In the Garden by Dominique Browning, and Empress Josephine's Les Liliacées by Pierre-Joseph Redouté 15.11.2024 31:01

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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...

November 14, 2024 A Second Spring, Nell Gwynn, John Custis IV, Gardens for the Soul by Sara Bird and Dan Duchars, and Robert Buist 14.11.2024 27:26

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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 Re...

November 13, 2024 Gardens, Meteors, and Chrysanthemums, Joseph Paxton, Cherry Trees of 1909, The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Cacti and Succulents by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Paul Rees and The Dangerous World of Rare Orchids 13.11.2024 23:56

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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 a...

November 12, 2024 Revelations in the Fall Garden, Auguste Rodin, Princess Therese of Bavaria, Habitat Creation In Garden Design by Catherine Heatherington and Alex Johnson, and Clarissa Tucker Tracy 12.11.2024 24:34

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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 fathe...

November 08, 2024 Winter Preparation, William Copeland McCalla, Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, A New Cottage Garden by Mark Bolton, and Margaret Mitchell 08.11.2024 32:01

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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 l...

November 07, 2024 November's Little Garden Tasks, Rockingham Colonial Gardens, Warren Manning, The Landscape of Home by Edmund Hollander, and Ruth Pitter 07.11.2024 31:34

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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 i...

November 06, 2024 Finding Hope in the November Garden, Alice Lounsberry, Frank Kingdon-Ward, Favorite Poems for the Garden by Bushel & Peck Books, and Martha Turnbull 06.11.2024 28:56

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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. Grow T...

November 05, 2024 Arranging Flowers and Planting Bulbs, Humphry Marshall, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Garden Favorites by Warren Schultz, Rebecca W. Atwater and Rick Darke, and Ida Tarbell 05.11.2024 30:29

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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 he...

November 04, 2024 Last Call for Spring Bulbs, John Bradby Blake, William Rickatson Dykes, Harry Ferguson, My Favorite Plant by Jamaica Kincaid, and Saving Summer with a Windowsill Garden 04.11.2024 30:15

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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 extr...

November 01, 2024 Welcome November Gardens, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, John Joly, Adventures in Eden by Carolyn Mullet, and Maude Jeannie Young 01.11.2024 33:06

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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...

October 31, 2024 Spiderwebs and Snow, John Keats, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Seedtime and Harvest by Christie Purifoy, and Troston Gardener Edward Ward 31.10.2024 33:59

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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 write...

October 30, 2024 October Blooms at David Culp's Brandywine, Heinrich Cotta, Evelyn Booth, The Cottage Garden by Claus Dalby, and Alfred Sisley's Garden Wisdom 30.10.2024 24:40

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 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, I...

October 29, 2024 A Gardener's Late October Checklist, Charles Wright, Thoreau the Botanist, A Home in Bloom by Christie Purifoy, and USDA Pioneer Effie Southworth 29.10.2024 27:08

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1811 Texas botanist Charles Wright is born on this day in Wethersfield, Connecticut. 1972 The Berkshire Eagle published a revealing article about Henry David Thoreau [pronounced: THOR-oh] titled "Th...