Posts Tagged ‘Richard Evans Schultes’
March 29, 2022 William Baldwin, R. S. Thomas, Yûrin no Niwa, COVID Garden Prep, Homegrown Tea by Cassie Liversidge, and Richard Evans Schultes
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 1779 Birth of William Baldwin, American physician, and botanist. William is remembered as one of the first botanists to explore Georgia and…
Read MoreRemembering Schultes-Award-Winning Ethnobotanist Calvin R. Sperling
“Sperling traipsed over mountain slopes [in the Soviet Union] in search of wild apricot trees. He had expected to find about twenty forgotten varieties. Instead, he brought back nearly fifty different specimens.” July 3, 1993 On this day, newspapers reported on the first recipient of the Richard Evans Schultes Award: Calvin R. Sperling. Calvin was…
Read MoreThe First-Ever Richard Evans Schultes Award Went to Ethnobotanist Calvin R. Sperling
“As Schultes once said, ‘Ethnobotany simply means someone who is investigating plants used by primitive societies in various parts of the world.'” July 3, 1993 On this day, The Press Democrat out of Santa Rosa, California, reported on the first Richard Evans Schultes Award recipient. The honor went to a preeminent botanist and plant explorer…
Read MoreJuly 3, 2019 Clearance Plants, Gilbert Laing Meason, Michael Keens, Lambertus Bobbink, William Henry Davies, Grow in the Dark by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, Hakonechloa All Gold, Richard Evans Schultes, and Calvin Sperling
Sometimes the plant gods smile on you with a clearance sale featuring something genuinely spectacular like Japanese Forest Grass or, in this case, Hakonechloa ‘All Gold.’ My local Lowes was clearancing them for $3 a pop – and it was just what the plant doctor ordered to dress up our cabin up north. In 2009,…
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