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February 16, 2022 Marie Clark Taylor, David Austin, the New Jersey State Flower, Sleepy Cat Farm by Caroline Seebohm, and Elizabeth Gilbert

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Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1911 Birth of Marie Clark Taylor, American botanist and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in botany from Fordham University. A…

Remembering Josephine Margetts: Gardener, Politician, and Lover of Nature

“She hadn’t the heart to pull it up, she said, and so it grew and grew until it rivaled the height of the tallest hollies and its expanding girth forced strollers to detour around it.” In researching Josephine Margetts — the woman who created the bill for the State Flower of New Jersey (the Violet)…

February 16, 2021 Plant Selfishness, Townshend Stithe Brandegee, the New Jersey State Flower, Duck Hill Journal by Page Dickey, and the Remarkable Josephine S. Margetts

Navyman’s Nursery is Restored Through the Kindness of Fellow Nurserymen

The image shows the front of an old red truck parked on grass beside a tree and a fence. The setting is a green farm landscape with fields and trees in the background, evoking a rural, nostalgic atmosphere.

“Unannounced, they appeared at the Hallicy home with $2,500 worth of small trees in 15 trucks. With tractor, plow, and spades, they cleared the 4-acre plot and set out the trees. In a few hours, the Hallicy Nursery was right smack back in business.” October 1, 1945 On this day, The Morning Call out of…