Posts Tagged ‘Louis Agassiz’
From Swiss Peaks to American Peat: The Remarkable Journey of Leo Lesquereux
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 18, 1806 On this day, the world welcomed Charles Leo Lesquereux, a Swiss botanist whose life would unfold like a rare and resilient flower, facing adversity yet blooming in the most unexpected…
Read MoreApril 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…
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