Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants by Ken Thompson

Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants by Ken Thompson

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: (opens in new tab) 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…

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