Elizabeth Fox: The Baroness Who Brought Dahlias to Britain

Elizabeth Fox, portrait

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 16, 1845 On this day, dear readers, we bid farewell to a most remarkable woman, Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland, whose life bloomed as vibrantly as the flowers she so adored. A political…

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November 16, 2020 Denys Zirngiebel, Joseph Henry Maiden, Albert Francis Blakeslee, Donald Peattie, The Gardens of Bunny Mellon by Linda Jane Holden, and Elizabeth Fox

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Today we celebrate the man known as the “Pansy King.” We’ll also learn about the Anglo-Australian botanist who first described much of the Eucalyptus genus. We remember the American botanist who had a favorite plant he liked to use in the study of heredity – and it wasn’t peas. We salute one of America’s most…

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