Posts Tagged ‘LeRoy Abrams’
October 1, 2021 Pollinating via Toothbrush, LeRoy Abrams, Eudora Welty, Glenn Leiper, Neil Gaiman, Wreaths by Terri Chandler, and Robin Wall Kimmerer
Today in botanical history, we celebrate an American botanist, professor, and writer, an American short-story writer, and her last novel, and the amateur botanist honored with the Australian Native Plants Award. We’ll hear an excerpt from Neil Gaiman’s book, Season of Mists. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a master book on wreaths. And then…
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The California Plant Collector Today is the birthday of California plant collector, LeRoy Abrams, who was born on this day in 1874. Abrams was born in Sheffield, Iowa. He moved west with his parents as a small boy. As a graduate student, Abrams performed yeoman’s work botanizing the area around Los Angeles. A biographical sketch…
Read MoreOctober 1, 2019 International Coffee Day, Jens Jensen, LeRoy Abrams, John and Harvey Ruth, Cyrus Tracy, Daniel Boorstin, Eudora Welty, The Naturalist by Thom Conroy, Dark Times for Poinsettia, and the Restoration of the WIlliam Hallicy Nursery
Today is International Coffee Day. There is a legend that tells of coffee’s discovery: In Ethiopia, there was a goatherder who observed his goats didn’t want to go to sleep at night after eating berries from a certain tree. After he reported this to the Abbot of a local monastery, the Abbott gathered the berries…
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