Posts Tagged ‘Elsie Esterhuysen’
April 11, 2022 Christopher Smart, David Burke, Elsie Esterhuysen, The Ladies’ Village Improvement Society Cookbook by Florence Fabricant, and the Desegregation Commemorative Garden
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History 1722 Birth of Christopher Smart, English poet. He was known for his pen name as the midwife “Mrs. Mary Midnight.” The back…
Read MoreJumping Through Windows: The Extraordinary Life of South Africa’s Great Plant Collector Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 11, 1912 On this day, the botanical world received a gift it scarcely deserved—the birth of Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen, a South African treasure who would go on to become what modest society…
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