Posts Tagged ‘Kate Brandegee’
February 16, 2021 Plant Selfishness, Townshend Stithe Brandegee, the New Jersey State Flower, Duck Hill Journal by Page Dickey, and the Remarkable Josephine S. Margetts
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Read MoreKate Brandegee: California’s Trailblazing Woman Botanist
Exploring Life The great woman botanist and Californian Kate Brandegee wrote her husband, Townshend, who she lovingly called Townie. On this day in 1908, Kate was 64, and though she and Townie often botanized together, Kate was not afraid to go explore alone. She let Townie know in this letter that: ” I am going…
Read MoreJuly 2, 2020 An Audience of Plants, Buying Flowers in July, Marian Farquharson, Herman Hesse, Ralph Hancock, Kate Brandegee, Cordelia Stanwood, NASA’s ECOSTRESS, July Poetry, Glorious Shade by Jenny Rose Carey, and the Richard Wettstein Memorial
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Read MoreKate Brandegee: Pioneer Botanist, Mentor, and Guardian of California’s Flora
Exploring Life The great woman botanist and Californian Kate Brandegee wrote her husband, Townshend, who she lovingly called Townie. On this day in 1908, Kate was 64, and though she and Townie often botanized together, Kate was not afraid to go explore alone. She let Townie know in this letter that: ” I am going…
Read MoreApril 3, 2020 Gardening for Resilience, Magnifying Glass for the Garden Tote, Nikolay Rumyantsev, John Burroughs, Kate Brandegee, Graham Stuart Thomas, The Overstory by Richard Powers, and The Wake-Robin by Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter
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Read MoreAlice Eastwood: The Self-Taught Botanist Who Saved Plants From the Flames
Exploring Life The great woman botanist and Californian Kate Brandegee wrote her husband, Townshend, who she lovingly called Townie. On this day in 1908, Kate was 64, and though she and Townie often botanized together, Kate was not afraid to go explore alone. She let Townie know in this letter that: ” I am going…
Read MoreOctober 28, 2019 Missouri Botanical Garden New Visitor Center, CalRecycle’s Get Started with Composting, Alphonse de Candolle, Kate Brandegee, Gulie Lister, Edwin James, October’s Party, The Art of Gardening by Chanticleer, Feeding Winter Birds, and Finlay’s Little Sparta
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 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the Missouri Botanical Garden plans to break ground in January on a $92 million visitor center—named the Jack C.…
Read MoreMay 29, 2019 Sun Traps, John Barrymore, Joyce Winifred Vickery, Alfonsina Storni, Mirabel Osler, Succession Seed Annual Flowers, and the Wedding of Townshend and Kate Brandegee
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue Do you have a little sun trap in your garden? The perfect spot for an afternoon of lounging while reading your favorite book? The definition of…
Read MoreA Botanical Love Story: Kate Brandegee’s Legacy of Plants, Mentorship, and Adventure
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 3, 1920 On this day in botanical history, we mark the passing of the remarkable Kate Brandegee, the third woman to enroll at Berkeley’s medical school and the second woman professionally employed…
Read MoreApril 3, 2019 Garden Moods, John Burroughs, Kate Brandegee, Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter, William Glassley, Magnifying Glass, Trilliums, and the Wake-Robin
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue As I was preparing for today’s show, I kept thinking about this quote from John Burrows: “… One’s own landscape comes in time to be a…
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