Posts Tagged ‘Albert Francis Blakeslee’
Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Controversial Jimsonweed: Poetry Meets Botany
Clever Compositions February 22, 1892 Today is the birthday of the American lyrical poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay. Gardeners cherish Edna’s verses like: April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. I would blossom if I were a rose. I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a…
Read MoreFebruary 22, 2021 How to Create an Artistic Garden, Enda St. Vincent Millay, Charles Walker Cathcart, A Child Sees Winter Aconite for the First Time, Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine by Andrew Chevallier, and the Botanist Called the Vulture
8 Ways To Create A Garden That Feels Like Art | Garden Design | Pam Penick Botanical History On This Day 1892 Birth of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the lyrical poet and playwright beloved by gardeners for her nature verses: “April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.” Her poems celebrate blossoms, but her…
Read MoreAlbert Francis Blakeslee: Pioneer American Botanist and Geneticist
Plant Genetics November 16, 1954 Today is the anniversary of the death of the prominent American botanist and geneticist Albert Francis Blakeslee. For his doctoral dissertation, Albert revealed incredible new facts about bread molds: bread molds can be male or female, and bread molds have sex. In 1937, Albert proved that colchicine caused chromosomes to…
Read MoreNovember 16, 2020 Denys Zirngiebel, Joseph Henry Maiden, Albert Francis Blakeslee, Donald Peattie, The Gardens of Bunny Mellon by Linda Jane Holden, and Elizabeth Fox
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Revisiting Garden Dreams | The Daily Gardener Yes, I’d love to have a garden of my own — spacious and full of everything that is…
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