Hope Jahren Archives

September 27, 2021 Designer Vision, Simón de Rojas Clemente, Henri Frederic Amiel, James Drummond Dole, Catherynne Valente, Wild Flowers of Britain by Margaret Erskine Wilson, and Hope Jahren

Today in botanical history, we celebrate a Spanish botanist, a Swiss poet and diarist, and an American industrialist. We’ll hear an excerpt from a best-selling book where the main character is a 12-year-old girl named September. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that offers a year of fantastic wild flower paintings and notes.…

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Lab Girl is the story of Hope Jaren, an award-winning scientist. Hope has been studying paleobiology since 1996. Hope writes about trees, plants, and soil in scientific yet passionate prose in this book. (Hope’s mom has a degree in English literature, and her…