Posts Tagged ‘James Sowerby’
James Sowerby by Paul Henderson
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: (opens in new tab) 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…
Read MoreApril 14, 2021 Austin Trees After the Freeze, Helene Cramer, Henry Walter Bates, Ernest Hemingway, James Sowerby by Paul Henderson, and Jim Zampini
(opens in new tab) Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Botanical History On This Day 1844 Birthday of Helene Cramer, the German flower and landscape painter born in Hamburg. Forbidden by…
Read MorePhoebe Lankester: The Widowed Botanist Who Made Wildflowers Worth Notice
Penelope the British Botanist April 9, 1900 Today is the anniversary of the death of the British botanist, author, pragmatist, and survivor, Phoebe Lankester. Phoebe’s birthday is tomorrow. Born in 1825 as Phoebe Pope, she married the naturalist Edwin Lankester- who was a coroner and medical reformer. Together, they had eleven children. When Phoebe was 49,…
Read MoreWilliam Curtis: Founder of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and the London Botanic Garden
Flora Londiniensis January 11, 1746 (see comment below) Today is the birthday of the botanist, entomologist, and founder of the influential Curtis Botanical Magazine, William Curtis. William had started life as an apothecary, but in short order, he discovered that it could not hold his interest. Sir James Edward Smith recalled that William loved being…
Read MoreWilliam Curtis and the Legacy of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine
Pudding and Praise Today is the anniversary of the death of the botanist and entomologist William Curtis, the creator, and publisher of the influential Curtis Botanical Magazine. William founded the magazine in 1787. Curtis Botanical Magazine made him wealthy, and he often remarked that it had brought him “pudding and praise”. William had started out…
Read MoreGardens of Words: How Phebe Lankester Cultivated Knowledge for the Masses
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 9, 1900 On this day, British botanist and author Phebe Lankester departed this mortal coil, though one imagines she did so with the same practical determination with which she lived her extraordinary…
Read MoreApril 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
(opens in new tab) Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue Today’s thought is precisely that: How we think when we garden. Emerson wrote: Blame me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers…
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