The Geodesic Genius: Celebrating R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 12, 1895 On this day, dear readers, we celebrate the birth of a most extraordinary individual, one Richard Buckminster Fuller. An American polymath of the highest order, Fuller graced this world with…

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January 4, 2021 Invasive Garlic Mustard, Stephen Hales, Johanna Weterdijk, Eleanor Perenyi, Winter Garden Thoughts, A Life in Shadow by Stephen Bell, and Garden Trivia for National Trivia Day

20200101 The Daily Gardener Album Cover

Today we celebrate an English botanist who discovered which way sap flows in plants. We’ll also learn about a female Dutch botanist who fought for equity and is now remembered as a trailblazer. We’ll remember a thoughtful and witty garden writer whose only book became a garden classic. We hear some thoughts on the garden…

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