Posts Tagged ‘plant origins’
Garden Flora by Noel Kingsbury
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Garden Flora: The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants in Your Garden by Noel Kingsbury. This book traces garden plants back to their wild origins – cliffs, grasslands, mountains, and edges shaped by wind, salt, and scarcity. It restores the rough beginnings behind familiar garden plants, reminding…
Read MoreFebruary 17, 2026 Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Puschkinia, Alpine Plants, Garden Flora, and Life at the Edge
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today’s Show Notes Some plants don’t grow where it’s easy. They grow where the air is thin, the soil is spare, and the season is short.…
Read MoreAlphonse Pyramus de Candolle: The Father of Geographical Botany and Plant Origins
Father of Geographical Botany Today is the birthday of the botanist Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, who was born on this day in 1806 the year Linnaeus died. He was the son of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Candolle’s ground-breaking book, Origin for Cultivated Plantsbegins, “It is a common saying, that the plants with which…
Read MoreAlphonse de Candolle: The Father of Geographical Botany and Garden Zones
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 4, 1893 On this day in botanical history, the distinguished botanist Alphonse Pyramus (“Peer-ah-mus”) de Candolle (“Cundull”) departed this earthly garden at the venerable age of 87 in Geneva in 1893 (October…
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