February 25, 2026 Stephen Switzer, Josif Pančić, Thomas Moore, What Makes a Garden by Jinny Blom, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Daily Gardener · Feb 25, 2026 · 11m

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Some gardeners love order.

Straight lines.

Rules that behave.

And some gardeners love wildness.

They admire the old plant that refuses correction—the one that leans, the one that surprises, the one that moves where it wants.

After Emily Dickinson died, her sister Lavinia Dickinson took over the garden.

Emily's niece later remembered it this way:

"All [Lavinia's] flowers did as they liked:

tyrannized over…