Posts Tagged ‘African American History’
When Williamsburg Bloomed: John Custis’s Garden Vision
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 14, 1749 On this day, John Custis IV, an American planter, politician, government official, and military officer, died. His garden legacy has recently captured headlines as archaeologists uncover what was once colonial…
Read MoreSeeds of Change: Rosa Parks and the Yellow Dress That Bloomed into History
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. December 1, 1955 On this day, dear readers, a seamstress named Rosa Parks boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, unknowingly stitching herself into the very fabric of history. Let us, for a…
Read MoreThe Activist’s Garden: Frances Harper and the Poetry of Growth
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 24, 1825 Devoted cultivators of both gardens and justice, today we honor the birth of one whose pen planted seeds of change across our nation – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, whose legacy…
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