Posts Tagged ‘plant importation’
Friends, Foes, and Foreign Trees: America’s Great Cherry Blossom Debate
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 13, 1909 On this day, Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson (WIL-sun) sent what seemed like a routine notification to the plant industry office in Seattle. Little did anyone know this simple message…
Read MoreBlooms Across the Pacific: Ernest H. Wilson’s Azalea Diplomacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 24, 1919 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, a horticultural treasure trove arrived at the hallowed grounds of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Ernest H. Wilson, that intrepid plant explorer and…
Read MoreQuarantine Quandaries: How a Cherry Tree Kerfuffle Changed Gardening Forever
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 20, 1912 On this day, dear cultivators of verdant delights, we find ourselves transported to the year 1912, when a most consequential piece of legislation took root in our fair nation’s soil.…
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