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July 6, 2022 Antoine de Jussieu, John Wesley Powell, Marc Chagall, Frida Kahlo, The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide by Jenny Rose Carey, and Kenneth Grahame

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 1686 Birth of Antoine de Jussieu (“Ann-twan do Jyou-sue”), French naturalist, botanist, and physician. 1865 On this day, members of the John…

Vasey’s Paradise Today, in 1869, the explorer John Wesley Powell named an area of the Grand Canyon after his botanist George Vasey. Known as Vasey’s Paradise, water spills out from the north rim of the Grand Canyon into the Colorado River. It’s a spectacular, beautiful waterfall. A year earlier, in 1868, during Powell‘s preliminary expedition, Vasey…