Posts Tagged ‘historical artifacts’
The $5.5 Million Garden Album: Empress Josephine’s Botanical Treasure
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 15, 1985 On this day, a phenomenal piece of botanical history changed hands at Sotheby’s auction house: Empress Josephine’s personal copy of Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s (pee-AIR zho-ZEFF reh-doo-TAY) botanical watercolors for “Les Liliacées”…
Read MoreSeeds 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…
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