Carlotta Case Hall

Carlotta Case Hall

Yosemite Flora January 19, 1880  Today is the birthday of the American suffragist, fern collector, botanist, professor, and author Carlotta Case Hall. Carlotta studied botany at the University of California, Berkeley, which is how she met her husband, the botanist and professor Harvey Monroe Hall. Later, Carlotta herself became an assistant professor of botany at…

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January 19, 2021 Three Gorgeous Ways to Group Containers, Alice Eastwood, Carlotta Case Hall, The Magic of Light, Windcliff by Daniel J. Hinkley, and the Soapy State Flower of New Mexico: the Yucca

20200101 The Daily Gardener Album Cover

Today we celebrate the self-taught botanist who saved the San Francisco herbarium. We’ll also learn about the woman who helped describe the flora of Yosemite. We’ll hear a little passage about the magic of light. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a magnificent new book by a modern plant master: Dan Hinckley. And then we’ll…

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