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Joseph Trimble Rothrock

A Call to the Great Outdoors April 9, 1839 Today is the birthday of the American environmentalist and botanist Joseph Trimble Rothrock. Plagued by sickness as a child, Joseph felt called by the great outdoors, “I just had to go to the woods. Throughout my entire life, I have sought the out of doors as…

April 9, 2021 Derek Jarman on Gardening, Joseph Trimble Rothrock, Phoebe Lankester, E. J. Scovell, How to Houseplant by Heather Rodino, and Sidewalk Chalk Tree Labels

Today we celebrate a botanist remembered as the Father of Forestry. We’ll also learn about a 19th-century female garden writer who loved wildflowers. We’ll recognize the broadcasting Anniversary of a popular Garden television program. We hear words from a poet admired by Vita Sackville West, and the poem compares the iris and the tulip. We Grow That…

A Life Among Giants: Joseph Trimble Rothrock and His Beloved Trees

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 9, 1839 On this day, Joseph Trimble Rothrock made his entrance into the world—a man destined to transform from a sickly child into the formidable “Father of Forestry.” The irony, dear readers,…

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…