Posts Tagged ‘Botanic Garden’
February 25, 2021 This Year’s Garden Trends, Katherine Sophia Kane, Josif Pančić, The February Birds at Jean Hersey’s Feeder, Everlastings by Bex Partridge, and an Edna Walling Theater Production
Today we celebrate a young botanist that wrote the first flora of Ireland at the age of 22. We’ll also learn about the Father of Serbian botany. We hear words about the birds of winter – creatures that entertain us at our bird feeders and fly freely over our winter gardens. We Grow That Garden…
Read MoreCelebrating Friedrich Welwitsch and the Surreal-Looking Tree: Welwitschia mirabilis
In 1862, Joseph Dalton Hooker described the plant as “the ugliest yet [most] botanically magnificent plant in the world.” February 5, 1806 Today is the birthday of the Austrian botanist and explorer Friedrich Welwitsch. Friedrich found a second home in Portugal, where he served as the Botanic Gardens director in Lisbon. Friedrich had some…
Read MoreAugust Wilhelm Eichler and the Berlin Botanic Garden
“In the attic of a residential building that almost certainly once belonged to the Eichler family, a box of handwritten papers, galley proofs, herbarium material, and correspondence was found.. This legacy is currently being cataloged by Peter Hirsch.” April 22, 1839 On this day, the German botanist August Wilhelm Eichler was born. While researching…
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