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.
Dec 11, 2019
Today we celebrate the Spanish botanist who tackled the area known as New Spain and the man who discovered the Schneck Oak.
We'll learn about the French botanist who made many of our blooms bigger and better and the mayor who was known as the Little Flower.
We'll hear some thoughts about Winter and how we can...
Dec 10, 2019
Today we celebrate the gardener poet known for writing “hope
is the thing with feathers”, and the man who became the world
authority on agaves.
We'll learn about the Victorian botanist who was the first to speak
in favor of Darwin’s theory and the man who created the Ballard
Lock Garden in Seattle.
We'll hear a...
Dec 9, 2019
Today we celebrate the botanist who was also a spy during
WWII.
We'll learn about the German photographer who saw artistic
inspiration in his close-ups of plants.
We'll hear some prose about winter,
We Grow That Garden Library with a book that offers us 100 tips
for Growing a More Glorious Garden.
I'll talk about a...
Dec 6, 2019
Today we celebrate the botanist who made his mark in human anatomy and the botanist who lost his civil war specimens to a confederate raider.
We'll hear the most popular poem about trees written by a poet who was killed in WWI.
We Grow That Garden Library with a self-published humorous garden book by one of my favorite...
Dec 5, 2019
Today we celebrate a wealthy vineyardist who came up with
the idea for a raisin coop and the willow expert raised in
beautiful gardens.
We'll learn about the botanist who was murdered thanks to
miscommunication and the oldest tree in New Orleans.
We'll hear a garden poem about being shut out of the
garden.
We Grow...