environmental legacy Archives

Charles Joseph Sauriol: Moving, Memory, and the Moonlit Valley

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 14, 1938 Dearest readers, Let us journey together into the quiet, moonlit world of Charles Joseph Sauriol—Canada’s treasured naturalist, author, and the tireless “Mr. Conservation” whose life’s work was preserving the wild…

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…

Willis Linn Jepson and the Bloom of a Society

Willis Linn Jepson, a prominent late-19th and20th-century California botanist, professor, conservationist, and writer. He is recognized as a co-founder of the Sierra Club in 1892.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 12, 1913 On this day, dear readers, within the hushed yet hopeful walls of the Oakland Public Museum, a man of singular vision-Willis Linn Jepson, the Botany Man-summoned a small company to…