Peter the Great Archives

July 28, 2020 The Garden and Mental Health, John Evelyn, Andrew Jackson Downing, Roger Tory Peterson, Women and the Garden, The Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman, and Bill Cullina’s 2011 garden

Today we celebrate the botanist and writer who published the first book about salad. We’ll also learn about the horticulturist whose life was cut short on this day when the steamship he was on caught on fire and sank. We celebrate the man who helped generations of people fall in love with ornithology. We also…

April 2, 2020 Prospect Cottage, Pascua Florida, Maria Sibylla Merian, Job Baster, American Farmer, The Overstory by Richard Powers, and Max Ernst

Today we celebrate the discovery and naming of the state of Florida. We’ll also learn about one of the best botanical illustrators ever born as well as the man who introduced goldfish to Holland. We celebrate the publication of the first successful agricultural journal. Today’s Unearthed Words feature words about April. We Grow That Garden…

January 13, 2020 Rare Apples with William Mullan, Cornell College Trees, Maria Sibylla Merian, Nicolaus Thomas Host, Joseph Rock, Plough Monday, Hannah Rebecca Hudson, Creating Sanctuary by Jessi Bloom, Bamboo Saucers, and Air-Layering a Rubber Plant

Today we celebrate the woman who has been called the greatest painter of plants and insects who ever lived and the birthday of a man who is remembered in the name of one of the most ubiquitous garden plants. We’ll learn about an Austrian-American plant explorer who grew to feel his “real” home was in…