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 24, 2020
Today we'll celebrate a Scottish baker and botanist who left a
charming collection behind as his legacy - and I must say, he had a
head full of dark hair reminiscent of Beethoven.
We'll also learn about the White House's first Christmas tree and
the adorable grandchild who thoroughly enjoyed it.
We’ll recognize the...
Dec 23, 2020
Today we celebrate a gardener who was also a Founding Father and
a Governor of New York.
We'll also learn about a botanist who brought back the Bird of
Paradise (Strelitzia reginae "strel-IT-zee-ah REJ-in-ee") as well
as a plant that is now the oldest living potted plant at Kew.
We hear a charming poem that takes us...
Dec 22, 2020
Today we celebrate the botanist and doctor who established the
nation's first public botanical garden.
We'll also learn about the English Victorian author who loved
roses.
We’ll recognize the inspiring former president and owner of Tulsa
Greenhouse and Four State Wholesale.
We'll hear an excerpt about pruning from a...
Dec 21, 2020
Today we celebrate the Scottish botanist who is remembered for
the phenomenon known as Brownian Motion.
We'll also learn about the woman remembered as the Queen of the
Traditional English Country Garden.
We’ll have a little mini-class on Mistletoe and the etymology of
its name.
We’ll listen to a verse from a garden...
Dec 18, 2020
Today we celebrate the man who cleverly saved the Royal Botanic
Garden during the French Revolution.
We'll also learn about the woman who lavishly decorated her
bathroom with a garden theme almost a hundred years ago.
We look back at a successful bid to save a 700-year-old Christmas
Tree in Oregon.
We’ll remember one...