January 27 2021 Predicting the New Year’s 2021 Garden Trends, Lewis Carroll, Terramycin, Skunk Cabbage, Botanical Baking by Juliet Sear, and the Surprise in a Botanist’s Garden: Running Buffalo Clover

20200101 The Daily Gardener Album Cover

Today we celebrate the writer inspired by the Oxford Botanic Garden – a place he saw every day. We’ll also learn about medicine with roots in the soil in Indiana. We’ll hear a lovely excerpt about a harbinger of spring: Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) We Grow That Garden Library™ with a fantastic book about botanical…

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Running Buffalo Clover

Running Buffalo Clover

A Valuable Specimen Last year on this day on a post on IDigBio, we learned that the over 100,000 specimens that make up the University of Cincinnati’s botany collection were going digital thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation.  In the post, the herbarium curator Eric Tepe, “… opened a folder on his…

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