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James Sowerby by Paul Henderson

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: James Sowerby by Paul Henderson This book came out in 2016, and the subtitle is The Enlightenment’s Natural Historian. In this book, Paul Henderson introduces us to James Sowerby, arguably one of the best botanical illustrators of the mid-18th to mid-19th centuries. One of the reasons James was such…

April 14, 2021 Austin Trees After the Freeze, Helene Cramer, Henry Walter Bates, Ernest Hemingway, James Sowerby by Paul Henderson, and Jim Zampini

Today we celebrate a German landscape and flower painter who was forbidden to paint by her father. We’ll also learn about a self-taught botanist who spent nearly a dozen years in the Amazon rainforest. We hear an excerpt about spring from the man who wrote A Farewell to Arms. We Grow That Garden Library™ with…

April 9, 2019 Phebe Lankester, James Sowerby, Joseph Trimble Rothrock, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, Gardeners Question Time, Charles Baudelaire, Katie Daisy, the Toronto Archives, and Joseph Sauriol

Today’s thought is precisely that: How we think when we garden. Emerson wrote: Blame me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Comes back laden with a thought. How wonderful our gardens are for thinking. Creatively. Therapeutically. Soulfully. Every bloom can be a vessel for an idea, a…