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…
Read MoreThe Microscopic Gardener: Matthias Schleiden’s Cellular Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 5, 1804 This day marks the birth of one Matthias Jakob Schleiden, a German botanist whose work on plant cells has gardeners everywhere unconsciously in his debt, though most wouldn’t recognize his…
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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