Posts Tagged ‘Nathan Franklin Barrett’
November 19, 2019 German Garden Ideas, Christmas Cactus Care, Grave Gardening, Nathan Franklin Barrett, Calvert Vaux, Tennyson, John Tabb, Adventures of a Gardener by Peter Smithers, Place Cards, and Botanical Brothers at Gettysburg
Today we celebrate the co-founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a man who maximized his small space garden about 130 years before the rest of us. We’ll learn about the man who came to America to work with Andrew Jackson Downing, and then they both ended up dying by drowning 43 years…
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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 19, 2024 On this day, we celebrate the birth of Nathan Franklin Barrett, a true pioneer in the art of landscape architecture, born in 1845. Like a rebellious seedling breaking free from…
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