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.
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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 extraordinary legacy
that bridges East and West through botanical art and discovery.
1877 William Rickatson
Dykes [RICK-et-sun DYKES] is born in Bayswater,
London.
Though he began his career as a classics teacher at Charterhouse
School, it
was his passion for irises that would ultimately define his
legacy.
1884 Harry
Ferguson is born near Dromara [droh-MAR-ah] in
County Down, Ireland.
While we often think of gardening in terms of hand tools and
intimate connections with the soil, Ferguson revolutionized how we
cultivate the earth on a grand scale.
Grow That Garden Library™
Read The Daily Gardener review of My Favorite Plant by Jamaica Kincaid
Buy the book on Amazon: My Favorite Plant by Jamaica Kincaid
Today's Botanic Spark
1994 Garden writer Barbara Pleasant just
finished writing her article about extending
summer's joy through winter by bringing our beloved bedding plants
indoors.
The article appeared in the Montgomery
Advertiser in Montgomery, Alabama, the following day on
November 5th.
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And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every
day.