Twelve Miles in a Botanist’s Wake: The Legacy of Edwin Hunt

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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 17, 1869 It was on this day in 1869 that the botanist Edwin Hunt, with the stealth of a fox and the determination of a particularly obstinate weed, collected the last known…

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June 17, 2019 Reusing Potting Soil, Edwin Hunt, James Weldon Johnson, Alexander Braun, Nellie McClung, the University of Wisconsin’s Arboretum, Emily Dickinson, Joanne Shaw, The Plant Hunters by Carolyn Fry, Geranium Care, and Lajos Kossuth

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Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee  Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community Monologue Do you change the soil in your window boxes and containers every spring? You really don’t need to – I don’t. Here’s what I do instead:…

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