Posts Tagged ‘arboretums’
Classifying the Centuries: Gustavus Adolphus College Honors Linnaeus
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 25, 2007 On this day, dear readers and fellow devotees of botanical classification, Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota held its second Linnaeus Symposium, a grand affair titled “Linnaeus @ 300.” Can you…
Read MoreDictating Until Death: The Extraordinary Life of Garden Revolutionary J.C. Loudon
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 8, 1783 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of that Scottish luminary, John Claudius Loudon—author, garden designer, botanist, and inventor of words we now casually toss about as if…
Read More