Posts Tagged ‘historical women’
The Painter’s Garden: Anna Massey Lea Merritt’s Natural Inspirations
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 13, 1844 On this day, a most extraordinary soul entered our world – Anna Massey Lea Merritt, whose life would bloom like a carefully tended English garden, rich with both artistic achievement…
Read MoreElizabeth Cabot Agassiz: The Naturalist Who Cultivated Minds Instead of Gardens
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 27, 1907 On this day in garden history, we mark the passing of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, a woman whose intellectual blossoms were cultivated far from the soil we typically tend. While not…
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