Posts Tagged ‘Pressing Flowers’
May 4, 2022 Luca Ghini, Charlotte Turner Smith, Maud Grieve, Margaret Leland Goldsmith, The Little Library Year by Kate Young, and Gail Carriger
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 Today is Bird Day! 1556 Death of Luca Ghini (“Gee-nee”), Italian physician and botanist. Luca is remembered for creating the first…
Read MoreJohn Stewart Blackie Bucketlist Item: Meeting Tennyson and Pressing Flowers From His Garden
“[On Tennyson]: [His] head Jovian, eye dark, pale face, black flowing locks, like a Spanish ship-captain or a captain of Italian brigands something not at all common and not the least English. We dined, talked, and smoked together, and got on admirably.” August 6, 1809 On this day, Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was born.…
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