Posts Tagged ‘American botanists’
The Walking Botanist: Celebrating Charles Wright
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 29, 1811 Today we celebrate the birthday of Charles Wright born on this day in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Wright embodied the spirit of botanical exploration in early America, becoming one of the most…
Read MorePioneer in Plant Science: Effie Southworth
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 29, 1830 On this day, plant science pioneer Effie Almira Southworth [pronounced: EF-ee al-MY-rah SOUTH-worth], is born in North Collins, New York. Her story illuminates both the challenges and triumphs of women…
Read MoreUnmoved by Mountains: The Enigmatic Life of Charles Sprague Sargent
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 24, 1841 On this day, the horticultural world was graced with the birth of Charles Sprague Sargent, a man destined to become one of America’s most distinguished botanists. Charles, a figure as…
Read MoreBlooming Brilliance: How Paul George Russell Helped to Transform Washington’s Spring
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 24, 1889 On this day, the botanical world welcomed a new blossom in the form of Paul George Russell, an American botanist whose life would become as intricately woven into the fabric…
Read MoreBlooming Against the Odds: Ellsworth Jerome Hill’s Botanical Triumph
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. December 1, 1833 On this day, dear friends of the garden and admirers of human perseverance, a most remarkable individual drew his first breath. Ellsworth Jerome Hill, destined to become a Presbyterian minister,…
Read MoreThe Solitary Botanist: Mary Sophie Young’s Texas Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 20, 1872 Dearest garden enthusiasts, today we celebrate the birth of Mary Sophie Young, a tenacious botanist who, like her seven older brothers taught her to be, was tough enough to brave…
Read MoreBotanical Whispers: John Torrey and the Secret Gardens of Old New York
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 15, 1796 My darling green-thumbed confidants, the society of botanical enthusiasts has been forever altered by the arrival of one John Torrey, born on this most auspicious day in 1796. While you…
Read MoreThe Remarkable Caroline Dormon: Guardian of Grandpappy and Louisiana’s Natural Heritage
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 19, 1893 On this day, my dear gardening enthusiasts, I bring tidings of the birth of a most remarkable woman—a naturalist, botanist, ornithologist, prizewinning horticulturist, painter, archaeologist, historian, author of six books,…
Read MoreFrom Dust to Discovery: The Birth of Desert Botanist Forrest Shreve
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 8, 1878 On this day, dear readers, the American botanist Forrest Shreve was born, a man whose passion for the arid and seemingly inhospitable would forever change how we understand our desert…
Read MoreNathaniel Britton: The Artist-Botanist Who Drew His Own Path
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 25, 1934 On this day, we mark the anniversary of the demise of one Nathaniel Lord Britton, an American botanist and taxonomist who shuffled off this mortal coil. While the scientific community…
Read MoreThe Moss Whisperer: Remembering William Starling Sullivant
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 30, 1873 Today marks the anniversary of the departure of William Starling Sullivant, a man who devoted his life to the humble moss – those diminutive verdant pillows that cushion our forest…
Read MoreFrom Mantle to Mountainside: The Botanical Journey of Marcus Jones
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 25, 1852 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of Marcus Jones, a botanist whose life story reads like a love letter to the plant kingdom. Picture, if you will,…
Read MoreThe Remarkable Life of William Darlington: How a Pennsylvania Physician Bloomed into Botanical Fame
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 23, 1863 On this day, we must acknowledge the departure of that most curious specimen of American intellectual cultivation, Dr. William Darlington – botanist, physician, and politician – who has shuffled off…
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