Granite and Greenery: Berlin Honors Botanist Alexander Braun

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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 17, 1879 It was on this day that the botanical world paid homage to one of its fallen luminaries, when at the Botanical Gardens of Berlin, a monument to the late eminent…

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June 17, 2019 Reusing Potting Soil, Edwin Hunt, James Weldon Johnson, Alexander Braun, Nellie McClung, the University of Wisconsin’s Arboretum, Emily Dickinson, Joanne Shaw, The Plant Hunters by Carolyn Fry, Geranium Care, and Lajos Kossuth

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Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee  Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community Monologue Do you change the soil in your window boxes and containers every spring? You really don’t need to – I don’t. Here’s what I do instead:…

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