Posts Tagged ‘Nathaniel Wallich’
March 23, 2026 John Bartram, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Arabella Elizabeth Roupell, Down the Garden Path by Beverley Nichols, and William Taylor
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today’s Show Notes Today is about the twisty lives of gardeners. A garden history icon. A founding gardener with a ruined reputation. A botanical artist discovered…
Read MoreFebruary 9, 2026 Fredrik Hasselavist, William Griffith, John Ruskin, The Gardener’s Year by Karel Capek, and Henry Arthur Bright
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today’s Show Notes February is often described as the month of celebrating love. But in garden history, love rarely announces itself. It shows up in persistence.…
Read MoreThe Ruined Garden of Calcutta: William Griffith and Nathaniel Wallich’s Bitter Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 4, 1810 Dearest reader, On this day, William Griffith was born. He was a man whose story is a cautionary tale of scientific zeal clashing with the delicate art of garden stewardship.…
Read MoreArabella Elizabeth Roupell: The Lady Artist Who Captured South Africa’s Flora
The Cape Town Flower Painter March 23, 1817 Today is the birthday of the English flower painter Arabella Elizabeth Roupell. Arabella joined her husband when he was stationed in South Africa for his work with the East India Company. To occupy herself, Arabella painted the flora and fauna of the Cape. In a complete stroke…
Read MoreWilliam Griffith: The Brilliant but Doomed Botanist of Calcutta
Global Discoveries February 9, 1845 Today is the anniversary of the early death of the promising English botanist and naturalist William Griffith. William’s peers in Madras, India, honored him with a plaque that said, “He had attained to the highest eminence in the scientific world; and was one of the most distinguished botanists of his…
Read MoreFebruary 9, 2021 The Dependable Jade Plant, Henry Arthur Bright, William Griffith, Bark and pH, Cooking with Flowers by Miche Bacher, and Winter Garden Chores from 1889
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 Jade Plants Are the Low-Maintenance Houseplants Everyone Should Know About | MarthaStewart.com Botanical History On This Day 1830 Birth of Henry Arthur Bright, English gardener…
Read MoreNathaniel Wallich’s 1828 Letter to William Jackson Hooker
Flora of Asia November 11, 1828 On this day, the Danish surgeon and botanist Nathaniel Wallich wrote William Jackson Hooker at Kew in London. Nathaniel served as the Superintendent of East India Company’s Botanical Garden in Calcutta, India. From his post in Calcutta, Nathaniel was prepping a plant shipment for Hooker made up of over…
Read MoreNovember 11, 2020 Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, Elizabeth Coleman White, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Galileo, Foraged Flora by Louesa Roebuck and Sarah Lonsdale, and Nathaniel Wallich
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 How to Grow Dahlias | Hunker | Victoria Lee Blackstone Botanical History On This Day 1765 Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, the Belgian polymath whose relentless seed-to-seed…
Read MoreNathaniel Wallich: Danish Botanist and Superintendent of the East India Company’s Botanical Garden
The Flora of Asia Today is the birthday of the Danish surgeon and botanist Nathaniel Wallich. Nathaniel served as the Superintendent of East India Company’s Botanical Garden in Calcutta, India. Wallich’s early work involved writing a Flora of Asia. The palm Wallichia disticha (“wall-IK-ee-uh DIS-tik-uh”) was named in Wallich’s honor. The name of the species…
Read MoreJanuary 28, 2020 Maria Sibylla Merian, January King, Peter Collinson, Nathaniel Wallich, Carl Adolph Agardh, Walter Bartlett, Robin Macy, Weird Plants by Chris Thorogood, Heart Fly-Thru Birdfeeder, and Mr Poinsettia, Paul Ecke, Sr.
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 Hidden women of history: Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th-century entomologist and scientific adventurer Brassica Oleracea ‘January King’ From @GWmag Botanical History On This Day 1694 Peter…
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