Lenore Elizabeth Mulets Archives

March 1, 2022 Catharina Helena Dörrien, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Lenore Elizabeth Mulets, Stylish Succulent Designs by Jessica Cain, and Katharine White

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Friends of the Garden Meeting in Athens Georgia Register Here Botanical History 1717 Birth of Catharina Helena Dörrien (“Durr-ee-in”), German botanist, writer, and…

Lenore Elizabeth Mulets

Tales of Nature March 1, 1877 Today is the birthday of the children’s author, volunteer, poet, and teacher, Lenore Elizabeth Mulets. Born Nora Mulertz in Kansas, Lenore’s mother died when she was ten. Raised by her uncle’s family, Lenore left for Chicago’s Wheaton College to become a teacher. She found a position in Malden, Massachusetts,…

March 1, 2021 Thirty Irresistible Plants for Butterflies, Catharina Dörrien, Lenore Mulets, Alice and Forsythia, Fearless Gardening by Loree Bohl, and a Little Rose History with Fun Facts

Today we celebrate the first woman to describe Fungi (“funj-eye”) using the Linnaean system of classification. We’ll also learn about a little-known prolific nature and floral writer from the 1800s. We hear a little recollection by a garden writer who received an armload of Forsythia from a friend named Alice, just when she needed it…