Posts Tagged ‘Dr. Jan Salick’
Garden Ethnobotanist Jan Salick Honored with the 2020 Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration
“Jan has worked all over the world. She’s been to the most exotic places that you can think of: Indonesia, the Himalayas in the Amazon, in South America, etc. In 2018, the Missouri Botanical Garden tweeted: Garden ethnobotanist Dr. Jan Salick has built a career on wanderlust.” February 7, 2020 On this day, Dr. Jan…
Read MoreFebruary 7, 2020 Australian Plants, NYBG’s Poetic Botany, Cadwallader Colden, Jane Colden, John Deere, Charles Dickens, A Rich Spot of Earth by Peter Hatch, and Dr. Jan Salick
Today we celebrate the botanist who served as Lieutenant Governor of New York and the first American female botanist in America. We’ll learn about the man who changed agriculture forever with his invention. Today’s Unearthed Words feature the English Victorian author born today. He loved geraniums. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that…
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