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Celebrating the Woman Who Anonymously Wrote the Floral Dictionary: Elizabeth Wirt
“Elizabeth shared all she knew about the history of each flower she featured in her dictionary. Gardeners adored her book. It was republished every two years.” January 30, 1784 On this day, the American Floral Dictionary author Elizabeth Wirt was born. Elizabeth was the second wife of William Wirt, who served as an attorney general…
Read MoreJanuary 30, 2020 Good Garden Decisions, African Violets, George Ehret, Adelbert von Chamisso, Yerba Buena, Louise Beebe Wilder, Asa Gray, Ann Taylor, The Seed Underground by Janisse Ray, Garden Cloche, and Elizabeth Wirt
Today we celebrate the botanical illustrator who was wrongfully fired from his first job and the French botanist who spent a month in California with a boatful of Russians. We’ll learn about the botanical name of the city where people leave their hearts, and we’ll fall in love with a classic garden writer from Bronxville,…
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