environmental conservation Archives

Gentle Julia: The Adventurous Life of Julia Wilmotte Henshaw

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 19, 1937 On this day, Julia Wilmotte [will-MOT] Henshaw, Canadian botanist, geographer, writer, and political activist, died. Her remarkable life reads like an adventure novel – from mapping Vancouver Island’s interior to…

From Wild Gardens to City Planning: Warren Manning’s Living Legacy

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 7, 1860 Today, we celebrate Warren H. Manning, a visionary landscape architect whose birth was commemorated by his father with the planting of an elm tree – a fitting tribute for a…

The Mother of Trees: How One Woman’s Sorrow Bloomed Into 8,000 Banyans

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 5, 2023 On this day, when the world unites to celebrate our precious environment, let us turn our attention to a most remarkable gardener who has cultivated not merely plants, but a…