Posts Tagged ‘Matthias Schleiden’
April 5, 2021 Cottage Garden Ideas, Matthias Schleiden, Zina Pitcher, Lilies of the Valley Fabergé egg, Edward Giobbi, Happy Bonsai by Micheal Tran, and Anne Scott-James
Today we celebrate the botanist who discovered cells in plants and helped to establish cell theory. We’ll also learn about an amateur botanist who had a tremendous impact on the University of Michigan. We’ll remember the gift of a stunning Fabergé egg known as The Lilies of the Valley egg. We hear a delightful verse…
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The Earnest Scientist Happy Birthday today to the German botanist and early evolutionist Matthias Jakob Schleiden (born April 5, 1804, in Hamburg, Germany — died June 23, 1881, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Schleiden was also the co-founder (with Theodor Schwann) of the cell theory; Schleiden was the first person to recognize the importance of…
Read MoreApril 5, 2019 Garden Dreams, Birkenhead Park, Lord Viscount Morpeth, Matthias Schleiden, Algernon Swinburne, Joseph Paxton, Garden Picture Day, and Edward Kemp
It’s decision time in the garden. What will your projects be this year? We often have no idea if our garden dreams will come true. Gardeners may dream bigger dreams than emperors, but we can often get stuck. We put plants in the wrong spot. We buy the wrong thing. We buy the wrong…
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