Posts Tagged ‘Carnivorous Plants’
November 2, 2020 Daniel Seghers, Richard Mant, Gladys Taber, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Gardens in Detail by Emma Reuss, and Saving the Bladderwort
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1661 Daniel Seghers, the Flemish Jesuit brother and painter who pioneered floral garland still lifes and infused devotion into his intricate botanical…
Read MoreJohn Hendley Barnhart: Historian of Botanists and Master Bibliographer
The Botanist Biographer Today is the birthday of the Master Collector of Botanists, John Hendley Barnhart, who was born on this day in 1871. Barnhart was an American botanist who specialized in the biographies of other botanists. Like many botanists, Barnhart came to botany through medicine. After training to be a doctor, he never practiced…
Read MoreMichel Sarrazin: Canada’s First Naturalist and the Pitcher Plant Legacy
Surgeon to Naturalist Today is the birthday of the first collector and cataloguer of Canadian plant specimens, Naturalist Michel Sarrazin, who was born on this day in 1659. In France, Sarrazin was trained to be a surgeon. By the age of 25, he was appointed to help the troops headed to colonize Canada. When he…
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