Heal Thyself by Mr. Benjamin Woolley

Heal Thyself by Mr. Benjamin Woolley

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Heal Thyself by Benjamin Woolley This book came out in 2004, and the subtitle is Nicholas Culpeper and the Seventeenth-Century Struggle to Bring Medicine to the People. In this book, Benjamin brings us the first full biography of the great botanist and herbalist Nicholas Culpeper. Culpepper was a non-conformist,…

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April 7, 2021 Styling a Botanical Bookshelf, Michel Adanson, David Fairchild, William Wordsworth, Heal Thyself by Benjamin Woolley, and the Power of a Sunny Spring Day

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Today we celebrate a botanist who is honored by the genus for the spectacular Baobab tree. We’ll recognize the man who became a globetrotting botanist and even a food spy and ultimately introduced more than 200,000 plants to the United States, We’ll hear some words from a poet gardener, ecologist, and naturalist, who celebrates his…

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