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March 24, 2022 Mark Catesby, Joseph Priestley, William Morris, Reflections of Paradise by Gordon Taylor, and Kreider Nurseries World’s Fair Garden

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Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1682 Baptism of Mark Catesby, English naturalist and artist. He published the first comprehensive account of North American flora and fauna in…

Mark Catesby: The Artistic Naturalist Who Painted North America’s Wild Beauty

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 24, 1682 Dearest reader, On this day, we remember the baptism of Mark Catesby, an English naturalist, artist, and intrepid explorer whose pioneering journeys to the New World revealed the extraordinary flora…

Mark Catesby: The Explorer Who Painted America’s First Natural History

An illustration titled "The Ground-Squirrel, The Mastic Tree" by Mark Catesby, featured in his work The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.

Mark’s Magnificent Illustrations March 24, 1682 Today is the baptism day of the little-known English naturalist, adventurer, explorer, and artist. Mark Catesby – his exact birthdate has been lost to time. Way back when the United States was a British colony, Mark made two trips to the new world. On his second trip, he traveled…

March 24, 2021 A Fantastic Native Plant Resource, Mark Catesby, Aven Nelson, Bloodroot, Gardens in the Spirit of Place by Page Dickey, and Humphry Repton

Jan Gronovius: Botanist, Taxonomy Pioneer, and Plant Namer

The Twinflower Today is the birthday of the Dutch botanist Jan Gronovius. Gronovius’s story is inextricably bound to the Virginia botanist John Clayton. Clayton botanized Virginia. In the early 1700s, Clayton sent specimens to Gronovius both directly and indirectly through the English naturalist Mark Catesby. Gronovius was a little in over his head as he…

Jan Frederik Gronovius: Dutch Botanist and Early Collaborator of John Clayton

A Way With Words Today is the anniversary of the death of the Dutch botanist Jan Frederik Gronovius who died on this day in 1762. Gronovius’s story is inextricably bound to the Virginia botanist John Clayton. Clayton botanized Virginia. In the early 1700s, Clayton sent specimens to Gronovius both directly and indirectly through the English…

John Clayton’s American Debut: The Blossoming of a Botanical Legacy

Claytonia virginica is one of the many plants named for John Clayton.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 7, 1720 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, we commemorate the first recorded appearance of a most illustrious figure in the annals of colonial botany. John Clayton, that intrepid explorer of flora,…