Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants by Ken Thompson

Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants by Ken Thompson

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants by Ken Thompson This book came out in 2019, and the subtitle is Darwin’s Botany Today. In this book, Ken helps us understand Darwin as a botanist. After his famous voyage on The Beagle, Darwin experimented with and observed growing plants at his home in…

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November 18, 2020 Winter Garden Plants, William Shenstone, Leo Lesquereux, Asa Gray, Beverley Nichols, The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants by Kay Maguire, and Goldenrod

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Today we celebrate the man who was a gardener and a poet and he inspired the trend toward the picturesque natural Landscape. We’ll also learn about the Swiss botanist who specialized in mosses. We’ll remember the birthday of the Father of American botany. We’ll take a look back at a popular November fruit – I…

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