Serpentine Paths and Magnolia Dreams: The Life of Alexander Garden

Georg Dionysius Ehret, Gardenia Florida, c. 1759, in Plantae et Papiliones Rariores (1748-60), pl 15

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 15, 1791 On this day, the ever-so-clever Alexander Garden of Charleston, South Carolina, drew his final breath at the age of 61, succumbing to the ravages of tuberculosis. A man whose correspondence…

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