Posts Tagged ‘Floral Dress’
Seeds of Change: Rosa Parks and the Yellow Dress That Bloomed into History
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. December 1, 1955 On this day, dear readers, a seamstress named Rosa Parks boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, unknowingly stitching herself into the very fabric of history. Let us, for a…
Read MoreRemembering Liverwort Botanist Amy Hodgson and Her Floral Dress Photo
“Long ago, herbalists likely thought one of the liverworts resembled a liver – and so used it as a medicine for liver ailments. Thus, the word liverwort means a ‘liver-like small plant.'” January 7, 1983 On this day, the New Zealand botanist Eliza Amy Hodgson died. She was known by her middle name, Amy. …
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