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

The Daily Gardener · Jan 20, 2026 · 7m

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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 planting them, but by supporting, studying, and sometimes stubbornly defending them. Some legacies grow slowly. Some arrive as books. Some are simply the decision to protect a piece of ground so…