Edgar Shannon Anderson

Edgar Shannon Anderson

Plants, Man, and Life It’s the anniversary of the 1969 death of Edgar Shannon Anderson.    Anderson was an American botanist and his 1949 book Introgressive Hybridization was a major step forward in botanical genetics.   While he was at Harvard, Anderson went on to work at the Bussey Institute; a biological arm of the University.…

Read More

June 18, 2019 Little Free Herbary, Karl Theodor Hartweg, Edgar Shannon Anderson, Professor H.Y. Mohan Ram, Carol Klein, Great British Gardens, Vita Sackville-West, The Names of Plants by David Gledhill, Doyle’s Thornless Blackberry, and Jumpin Jack Flash

20200101 The Daily Gardener Album Cover

Have you heard of the Little Free Library that some thoughtful people put up out by their sidewalks? Well, a few weeks ago, I saw a post by Hylton Jolliffe about his Little Free Herbary… It takes obvious inspiration from the little free library movement, and it aims to help us share and connect with…

Read More