Posts Tagged ‘Hugo von Mohl’
April 8, 2022 Hugo von Mohl, Levi Lamborn, Mary Pickford, Betty Ford, Immersion by Nola Anderson, and Barbara Kingsolver
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History 1805 Birth of Hugo von Mohl, German botanist. One newspaper called him the “greatest botanist of his day.” He coined the word…
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Greatest Botanist of His Day Today is the birthday of the German botanist Hugo von Mohl. The greatest “botanist of his day,” it said in one newspaper. A German botanist, he was the first to propose that new cells are formed by cell division. Mitosis was discovered by Hugo von Mohl. And, in 1837, he…
Read MoreApril 1, 2020 The Daily Gardener Podcast Birthday, George Edward Post, Hugo Von Mohl, Peter cundall, Wangari Maathai, On the Wild Side by Keith Wiley, Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, and the Bernheim Arboretum
Today we celebrate the one year anniversary of the show and the man who wrote a flora of the Middle East. We’ll learn about the German botanist who discovered mitosis and chloroplasts. We celebrate the 93rd birthday of an English-Australian gardener who learned to garden and survived during World War II. We’ll honor the tremendous…
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The Mitosis Master On April 8, 1805, Hugo von Mohl was born. The most significant “botanist of his day,” it said in one newspaper. A German botanist, he was the first to propose that new cells are formed by cell division. Hugo von Mohl discovered mitosis. He discovered chloroplasts – describing them as discrete bodies…
Read MoreApril 8, 2019 John Claudius Loudon, Mary Pickford, Katie Melua, Hugo von Mohl, William Watson, Jackie Bennett, and the Duke of Wellington
Have you thought much about the layout or shape of your garden beds? Do they follow the natural lines and slopes of the landscape? Are they geometric? Long beds with corners? Maybe you’ve tried a circle garden. If you’re a beginner gardener, border beds anchored by a backdrop (like a house or a fence)…
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