Posts Tagged ‘mountain flora’
Gentle Julia: The Adventurous Life of Julia Wilmotte Henshaw
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 19, 1937 On this day, Julia Wilmotte [will-MOT] Henshaw, Canadian botanist, geographer, writer, and political activist, died. Her remarkable life reads like an adventure novel – from mapping Vancouver Island’s interior to…
Read MoreThe Botanical King of Colorado: Charles Christopher Parry’s Mountain Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 28, 1823 My dear green-thumbed companions, today marks the birthday of a most remarkable plantsman, the one and only Charles Christopher Parry, crowned the “King of Colorado Botany,” who graced this earth…
Read MoreJumping Through Windows: The Extraordinary Life of South Africa’s Great Plant Collector Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 11, 1912 On this day, the botanical world received a gift it scarcely deserved—the birth of Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen, a South African treasure who would go on to become what modest society…
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