February 7, 2020 Australian Plants, NYBG’s Poetic Botany, Cadwallader Colden, Jane Colden, John Deere, Charles Dickens, A Rich Spot of Earth by Peter Hatch, and Dr. Jan Salick
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Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition
Have you explored the 'Poetic Botany' exhibition from @NYBG yet? This interactive digital exhibition illuminates the cross-section between art, science, and poetry through nine plant species. Check it out here:
Botanical History On This Day
1688 Cadwallader Colden, the Scottish-American physician, scientist, botanist, and New York Lieutenant Governor who encouraged his brilliant daughter Jane Colden to become America’s first female botanist — translating Linnaeus into English for her and sharing his botanical library and visitors — was born in Ireland before establishing the family estate of Coldenham in New York.
1804 John Deere, the Vermont-born blacksmith who headed west to Illinois with $73 in his pocket and, in 1838, solved the prairie’s heavy-soil problem by inventing the first steel plow — launching a company that would ultimately reshape American agriculture — was born in Rutland, Vermont.
Unearthed Words
An assortment of garden-flavored lines from Charles Dickens — the Great Expectations “summer in the sun and winter in the shade” quote, autumn berries like “clusters of coral beads,” and the elm trees whispering secrets in David Copperfield — remind us how closely Dickens watched the natural world from his garden at Gad’s Hill Place.
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Today's Botanic Spark
Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart
Honoring Dr. Jan Salick with the 2020 Fairchild Medal — Today, Wisconsin-born ethnobotanist Jan Salick, Senior Curator at Missouri Botanical Garden, receives the 2020 Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration at The Kampong in Coconut Grove, Florida. Only the second woman to earn this highest honor in plant exploration, Jan has spent four decades studying how climate change affects indigenous people and the plants they depend on in places like the Himalayas, the Amazon, and Indonesia.
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