March 24, 2021 A Fantastic Native Plant Resource, Mark Catesby, Aven Nelson, Bloodroot, Gardens in the Spirit of Place by Page Dickey, and Humphry Repton
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Botanical History On This Day
1682 Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and artist, was baptised. His landmark work, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, became the first illustrated account of North American flora and fauna.
1859 The American botanist Aven Nelson was born. He is remembered as the Father of Wyoming Botany and as the leader of a landmark Yellowstone expedition that laid the foundation for the Rocky Mountain Herbarium.
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Diary entry by Charles Joseph Sauriol, March 24, 1938
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1818 Humphry Repton, the influential landscape gardener, died. His Red Books, ha-ha walls, and vision for natural beauty reshaped English garden design.
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