Posts Tagged ‘plant preservation’
Therese of Bavaria: The Princess Who Found Freedom in Flowers
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 12, 1850 On this day, Princess Therese of Bavaria (teh-RAY-zuh of buh-VAIR-ee-uh), was born. This remarkable woman found her true calling not in the gilded halls of Bavaria’s royal palaces but in…
Read MoreA Flora of Concord from Thoreau’s Time to the Present Day
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 29, 1972 On this day, The Berkshire Eagle published a revealing article about Henry David Thoreau [pronounced: THOR-oh] titled “Thoreau: The Amateur Botanist.” The piece, penned by Wayne Hanley, drew heavily from…
Read MoreOctober 28, 2024 The Garden’s October Lullaby, Hippolyte François Jaubert, Harold Basil Christian, Growing Your Own Tea Garden by Jodi Helmer, and Sarah Sophia Banks
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 1798 Count Hippolyte François Jaubert, a fascinating figure who bridged the worlds of politics and botany in 19th century France, is born.…
Read MoreThe Flower Presser: Luca Ghini’s Botanical Revolution
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 4, 1556 On this day, dear cultivators of knowledge and nurturers of nature, we mark the passing of a true titan in the realm of botany: Luca Ghini. Though his name may…
Read MoreE. Lucy Braun: Trailblazing Botanist and Ecologist of Eastern US Forests
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 19, 1889 Dearest reader, On this day, the world gained a force of nature in the form of Emma Lucy Braun — though she would insist you call her simply Lucy. How…
Read MoreA Garden with a Soul: The Life, Legacy, and Literary Blooms of Jean Galbraith
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 28, 1906 Dearest reader, On this day, we celebrate the birth of Jean Galbraith, a beloved Australian botanist, gardener, writer, and poet whose life was intimately entwined with the wildflowers and native…
Read MoreSaving the Sakura: Cherry Ingram’s Journey to Preserve Japan’s Blossoms
by Naoko Abe There, in a garden of a house near the Osakabe Hotel (“sah-KAH-bay”), towering above a tall wooden fence, stood a tree with narrow leaves and bunched clusters of double mauve-pink blossoms with close to 100 petals. Ingram’s immediate reaction was to work out how to spirit cuttings of the tree to England.…
Read MoreTheodore Vogel, the Niger Expedition, and the Trials of a Botanist at Sea
A Peaceful Passing December 4, 1841 On this day, the German botanist Theodore Vogel was laid low with dysentery. After joining the Niger (“nee-ZHER”) expedition, Theodore recorded in his journal the difficulties of traveling without the benefit of a Wardian Case on board a naval warship called the Wilberforce: “As soon as I got on…
Read MoreElizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton: Pioneer Bryologist and Conservation Champion
The Famous Bryologist Today is the birthday of the famous bryologist Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton. Elizabeth married the botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton. She was a teacher, and he was a professor of botany at Columbia University. Together, they helped create the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Their primary source of Inspirationtion was Kew…
Read MoreAlice Eastwood: The Self-Taught Botanist Who Saved Plants From the Flames
A Curator of Botany Today is the anniversary of the death of the Canadian American self-taught botanist Alice Eastwood who died on this day in 1953. Eastwood is remembered for saving almost 1500 specimens from a burning building following the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Afterward, she wrote about the specimens that didn’t make it:…
Read MoreThe Man Who Made Roses Weep: Graham Stuart Thomas Remembered
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 17, 2003 On this day, the gardening world lost one of its most illustrious luminaries when Graham Stuart Thomas departed this mortal coil at the venerable age of 94. A man who…
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