Posts Tagged ‘plant transportation’
John Bradby Blake: The Young Botanist Who Bridged East and West
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 4, 1745 On this day, we celebrate the birth of the English botanist John Bradby Blake [BRAD-bee BLAKE]. Though he lived a tragically short life – dying at just twelve days after…
Read MoreNathanial Bagshaw Ward: Commemorating the Inventor of the First Terrarium
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 4, 1868 On this day, we bade farewell to Dr. Nathanial Bagshaw Ward, a man whose seemingly mundane observation of a fern spore in an insect jar would revolutionize the botanical world…
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