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James Sowerby by Paul Henderson
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: James Sowerby by Paul Henderson This book came out in 2016, and the subtitle is The Enlightenment’s Natural Historian. In this book, Paul Henderson introduces us to James Sowerby, arguably one of the best botanical illustrators of the mid-18th to mid-19th centuries. One of the reasons James was such…
Read MoreApril 14, 2021 Austin Trees After the Freeze, Helene Cramer, Henry Walter Bates, Ernest Hemingway, James Sowerby by Paul Henderson, and Jim Zampini
Today we celebrate a German landscape and flower painter who was forbidden to paint by her father. We’ll also learn about a self-taught botanist who spent nearly a dozen years in the Amazon rainforest. We hear an excerpt about spring from the man who wrote A Farewell to Arms. We Grow That Garden Library™ with…
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