Posts Tagged ‘Jean Senebier’
May 6, 2022 Jean Senebier, Joseph Joubert, Sigmund Freud, Mirei Shigemori, The Layered Garden by David Culp, and Versailles
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 On This Day 2022 Compost Awareness Week, a gardener’s gentle reminder that yesterday’s peel becomes tomorrow’s peony—celebrating the alchemy that turns waste into soil. 1742…
Read MoreBreathing with Plants: Jean Senebier and the Secret of Leaves
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 6, 1742 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, a most remarkable seed was planted in the fertile soil of scientific inquiry. Jean Senebier, destined to become a Swiss pastor and botanist of…
Read MoreJean Senebier: The Botanist Who Revealed the Secret Life of Leaves
Finding the Purpose of Leaves May 6, 1742 Today is the birthday of Jean Senebier, a Swiss pastor and botanist. Where would we be without Senebier? Still breathing… but lacking the knowledge that carbon dioxide is consumed by plants and, in turn, that plants produce oxygen as part of the process of photosynthesis. In a nutshell,…
Read MoreMay 6, 2021 A Farmer Chef’s New Perspectives on Vegetables, Jean Senebier, Alexander von Humboldt, Gardener Philosophers, Eating from the Ground Up by Alana Chernila, and the 1917 Raisin Day Parade
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 A farmer to chef reveals his deep vegetable knowledge | Agrinews | Mark Kennedy Botanical History On This Day 1742 Birthday of Swiss pastor and…
Read MoreMay 6, 2019 Warm Night Temperatures, Jean Senebier, Lomatium, Alexander Von Humboldt, Temperate House, Massachusetts Hort Society, Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature, Mother’s Day Flowers, and the Hudson Garden Club
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue We are on the cusp of consecutive warm nights. Warm soil temps will take a few more weeks. Recently, I had a gardener ask me about…
Read MoreBreathing Green: Jean Senebier and the Secret Life of Leaves
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 6, 1742 On this day, the world welcomed Jean Senebier, a Swiss pastor and botanist whose work would forever change our understanding of the natural world. One might wonder, dear readers, where…
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