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Blooming Against the Odds: Ellsworth Jerome Hill’s Botanical Triumph

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. December 1, 1833 On this day, dear friends of the garden and admirers of human perseverance, a most remarkable individual drew his first breath. Ellsworth Jerome Hill, destined to become a Presbyterian minister,…

Jamie Taggert: The Young Scottish Plant Hunter Lost to Fansipan

A Risk For Plants On this day in 2013, Jamie Taggert, the young Scottish botanist, set out on a solo Plant Expedition to Vietnam. Jamie grew up with his botanist father, Jim, and tended the garden his dad founded – the Linn Botanic Gardens that overlooks Loch Long on Cove Bay in Scottland. The ancestors…

Bonnie Templeton: Trailblazing Botanist and Curator of Los Angeles County Museum

Wild Victory Gardens Today is the birthday of the botanist Bonnie Templeton who was born on this day in 1906. In 2002, Templeton died at the age of 95. She was a trailblazing female in the field of botany. Her obituary noted her some of her botanical accomplishments which included, “discovering a rare plant on…