Posts Tagged ‘Jane Webb Loudon’
Jane Webb Loudon: The Sci-Fi Gardener Who Blossomed Through Adversity
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 19, 1807 My darling garden companions, today we celebrate the birth of a most extraordinary woman, Jane Webb, who would later marry that titan of horticultural literature, John Claudius Loudon. Oh, how I…
Read MoreDictating Until Death: The Extraordinary Life of Garden Revolutionary J.C. Loudon
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 8, 1783 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of that Scottish luminary, John Claudius Loudon—author, garden designer, botanist, and inventor of words we now casually toss about as if…
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