October 28, 2019 Missouri Botanical Garden New Visitor Center, CalRecycle’s Get Started with Composting, Alphonse de Candolle, Kate Brandegee, Gulie Lister, Edwin James, October’s Party, The Art of Gardening by Chanticleer, Feeding Winter Birds, and Finlay’s Little Sparta

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Today we celebrate the Swiss botanist known as the father of geographical botany and the American botanist who went on a 500-mile nature walk for her honeymoon. And, just in time for Halloween, we’ll learn about the botanist who followed in her father’s footsteps to study slime mold. And, we’re coming up on the 200th…

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Alphonse de Candolle: The Father of Geographical Botany and Garden Zones

Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 4, 1893 On this day in botanical history, the distinguished botanist Alphonse Pyramus (“Peer-ah-mus”) de Candolle (“Cundull”) departed this earthly garden at the venerable age of 87 in Geneva in 1893 (October…

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