Posts Tagged ‘Poisonous Plants’
Potatoes and Poison: Sir Thomas Overbury’s Garden of Wit
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 14, 1613 On this day, while autumn’s first crisp breezes rustled through the Tower of London’s modest kitchen gardens, a most intriguing tale of court intrigue reached its tragic conclusion. Sir Thomas…
Read MoreKatharine White on Poisonous Plants
by Katharine S. White The year 1967 started with an all-out alert on the danger of poisonous plants. On January 6th, the Times published a story about a lecture on the subject by John M. Kingsbury, the author of a useful small book titled Deadly Harvest: A Guide to Common Poisonous Plants. At a very…
Read MoreJulia Morton: The Botanical Detective Who Solved Plant Mysteries
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 25, 1912 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, we celebrate the birth of Julia Francis McHugh Morton, an author and botanist whose life’s work reminds us that the plant kingdom, while beautiful,…
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