Posts Tagged ‘Lucy Braun’
April 19, 2021 Six Amazing Garden Recipes, Adrian Hardy Haworth, Lucy Braun, Jen Calonita, Just Add Water by Cynthia Gaylin Bigony, and National Garlic Day
Today we celebrate a botanist remembered with the Haworthia (“how-wurth-EE-ah”) genus. We’ll also learn about a botanist who spent 25 years researching the forests of the Eastern United States. We’ll hear about the Greek goddess of spring from author Jen Calonita. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about flower arranging. And then we’ll…
Read MoreA Sister of Science: How Lucy Braun Charted Her Own Path Through American Forests
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 19, 1889 On this day, the botanical world welcomed one of its most formidable daughters – Emma Lucy Braun, though she insisted upon “Lucy” with the same determination she later applied to…
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