Posts Tagged ‘Empress Josephine’
The $5.5 Million Garden Album: Empress Josephine’s Botanical Treasure
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 15, 1985 On this day, a phenomenal piece of botanical history changed hands at Sotheby’s auction house: Empress Josephine’s personal copy of Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s (pee-AIR zho-ZEFF reh-doo-TAY) botanical watercolors for “Les Liliacées”…
Read MoreAimé Chile Bonpland: The Explorer Who Discovered Plants and Peppers
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 28, 1773 On this day, my precious petal-tenders and botanical confidantes, the remarkable French explorer and botanist Aimé Bonpland drew his first breath in this glorious world of ours in 1773. How…
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