Posts Tagged ‘Pitcher Plant’
April 11, 2022 Christopher Smart, David Burke, Elsie Esterhuysen, The Ladies’ Village Improvement Society Cookbook by Florence Fabricant, and the Desegregation Commemorative Garden
(opens in new tab) 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 1722 Celebrate the life of Christopher Smart, the English poet whose wild genius shone brightest behind prison walls.…
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Surgeon to Naturalist Today is the birthday of the first collector and cataloguer of Canadian plant specimens, Naturalist Michel Sarrazin, who was born on this day in 1659. In France, Sarrazin was trained to be a surgeon. By the age of 25, he was appointed to help the troops headed to colonize Canada. When he…
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