Posts Tagged ‘Plant’
November 16, 2021 Virtual Herbariums, Laurel Hill, Root Crop Preservation in 1835, Odoardo Beccari, Louise Driscoll, Marsha Mehran, Plant by Phaidon Editors, and Elizabeth Coblentz
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Circulating Specimens: History | herbariumworld.wordpress.com | Maura Flannery Botanical History On This Day 1776 On this day, Hessian troops allied with the British opened fire on…
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As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Plant by Phaidon Editors This book came out in 2016, and the subtitle is Exploring the Botanical World. This book is gorgeous. You might remember it – it’s got a black background and then a simple blossom design where each of the leaves is made with a different fabric…
Read MoreArt for Gardeners: American painter and illustrator Maxfield Parrish’s Iconic Print Called The Botanist
“In his raised right hand, he is holding a plant, and in his left hand, he is clutching a magnifying glass.” July 18, 1908 On this day, a Maxfield Parrish Print called The Botanist appeared on the cover of Collier’s magazine. The iconic image shows a full-length profile of a man wearing a long…
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