September 13, 2021 Butternut Onion Galette, Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, Anna Massey Lea Merritt, Henry Hurd Rusby, Giles Milton, Vegan 100 by Gaz Oakley and James Forbes in Baden

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Today we celebrate a German landscape gardener who introduced English gardens to Germany. We’ll also learn about an American painter and printmaker best known for her incredible painting Love Locked Out (1890)… but she was also a gardener and painted beautiful landscapes. We’ll also look back at a cautionary story about a botanist who protected…

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The Painter’s Garden: Anna Massey Lea Merritt’s Natural Inspirations

Anna Lea Merritt, 1885

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 13, 1844 On this day, a most extraordinary soul entered our world – Anna Massey Lea Merritt, whose life would bloom like a carefully tended English garden, rich with both artistic achievement…

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