The Daily Gardener is a weekday show.
It will air every day Monday - Friday
(I’m taking weekends off for rest, family, fun, & gardening!)
The show will debut April 1, 2019. The tagline for the show is thoughts & brevities to inspire growth.
Shows are between 5 - 10 minutes in length.
The format for the show begins with a brief monologue followed by brevities.
The Brevities segment is made up of 5 main topic areas.
1. Commemoration: Here, I dig up fascinating people, places, and events in horticulture and share them with you. This is the “On This Day” #OTD portion of the show helping you feel more grounded and versed o n the most enchanting stories from the history of gardening.
2. Unearthing Written Work: This is made up of poems, quotes, journal entries, and other inspiring works pertaining to gardening
3. Book Recommendations: These are the literary treasures that will help you build a garden library, strengthen your gardening know-how and inspire you.
4. Garden Chores: A Daily Garden To-Do; improve your garden one actionable tip at a time
5. Something Sweet: This segment is dedicated to “reviving the little botanic spark” in your heart - to paraphrase botanist Alexander Garden; to add more joy to the pursuit of gardening.
The show sign-off is: "For a happy, healthy life: garden every day"
There are a few easter eggs in the show for Still Growing listeners. I still start the show with - "Hi there, everyone" and I end the show by saying the show is "produced in lovely, Maple Grove, Minnesota”.
The music for the show is called “The Daily Gardener Theme Song” originally dubbed “Bach’s Garden". I wrote it on Garageband. It will be available as a ringtone for your smartphone through the show’s Patreon page.
If you enjoy the show, please share it with your garden friends. I would so appreciate that.
Oct 31, 2019
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...
Oct 30, 2019
Today we celebrate the impressionist Landscape painter who
included kitchen gardens as a subject and 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 and the botanist who
braved...
Oct 29, 2019
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...
Oct 28, 2019
Today we celebrate the Swiss botanist known as the father of geographical botany and the American botanist who went on a 500-mile nature walk for her honeymoon.
And, just in time for Halloween, we'll learn about the botanist
who followed in her father's footsteps to study slime
mold.
And, we're coming up on the 200th...
Oct 25, 2019
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'll learn about the Dutch botanist who was trying to figure
out what was going on with his tobacco plants and made a
significant discovery for science.
We'll hear the...