September 13, 2021 Butternut Onion Galette, Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, Anna Massey Lea Merritt, Henry Hurd Rusby, Giles Milton, Vegan 100 by Gaz Oakley and James Forbes in Baden

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Today we celebrate a German landscape gardener who introduced English gardens to Germany. We’ll also learn about an American painter and printmaker best known for her incredible painting Love Locked Out (1890)… but she was also a gardener and painted beautiful landscapes. We’ll also look back at a cautionary story about a botanist who protected…

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The Garden Revolutionary: Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell’s Natural Legacy

Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell by Clemens Zimmermann, after 1808

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 13, 1750 On this day, my dearest fellow gardening enthusiasts, we celebrate the birth of a true revolutionary in the art of landscape design – Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell. And what a…

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