Posts Tagged ‘Mountain Laurel’
November 16, 2021 Virtual Herbariums, Laurel Hill, Root Crop Preservation in 1835, Odoardo Beccari, Louise Driscoll, Marsha Mehran, Plant by Phaidon Editors, and Elizabeth Coblentz
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Circulating Specimens: History | herbariumworld.wordpress.com | Maura Flannery Botanical History On This Day 1776 On this day, Hessian troops allied with the British opened fire on…
Read MoreLaurel Hill and the Mountain Laurel: History, Botany, and Revolution
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 16, 1776 Dearest reader, On this day—at the civilized hour of seven o’clock, though the act itself was far from civil—the Hessian troops allied with the British opened their cannons upon the…
Read MoreAndre Michaux’s Discovery: Rhododendron minus Along the Tugalo River
The Rhododendron minus December 4, 1788 On this day, Andre Michaux made his way from Georgia into South Carolina by crossing the Tugalo River. In his journal, Michaux wrote: “At dawn, I went to look at the banks of the river, and I recognized the yellow root, [a new species of rhododendron], mountain laurel, hydrangea,…
Read MoreAndré Michaux’s First Encounter with Rhododendron minus
The Rhododendron minus December 4, 1788 On this day, Andre Michaux made his way from Georgia into South Carolina by crossing the Tugalo River. In his journal, Michaux wrote: “At dawn, I went to look at the banks of the river, and I recognized the yellow root, [a new species of rhododendron], mountain laurel, hydrangea,…
Read MoreJohn Hendley Barnhart: Historian of Botanists and Master Bibliographer
The Rhododendron minus December 4, 1788 On this day, Andre Michaux made his way from Georgia into South Carolina by crossing the Tugalo River. In his journal, Michaux wrote: “At dawn, I went to look at the banks of the river, and I recognized the yellow root, [a new species of rhododendron], mountain laurel, hydrangea,…
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