Gaspard Bauhin: The Botanist Who Named the Rutabaga

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The Many Uses of Rutabaga Today is the 460th birthday of the Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin. Gaspard spent his life classifying plants, and he ordered plants in a way that’s familiar to us today – using binomial names, one name for the genus, and one name for the species. Gaspard was also the first to…

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Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee  Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community Curated News Great Dixter’s Head Gardener, Fergus Garrett, On Conifers | House & Garden Great post from @_houseandgarden about “Why the Conifer is Having a Comeback.” “Conifers…

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