October 25, 2024 Patrick Neill, Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, Tyge Wittrock Bocher, The Healing Garden by Juliet Blankespoor, and A Tale of Two Postmen Turned Accidental Alpine Plant Merchants

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 On This Day 1776 Patrick Neill, British printer and horticulturalist, is born. 1840 Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, Classical Scholar, is born.  1909 Tyge Wittrock Böcher [TEE-guh VIT-rock…

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The Arctic Gardener: Tyge Böcher’s Frozen Paradise

Professor W. Tyge Böcher in the arctic greenhouse in Copenhagen (colorized) by H. Elsted Jensen, 1981

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 25, 1909 Now, dear friends, let us venture north to where the arctic winds whisper tales of an extraordinary botanist born on this day. Tyge Wittrock Böcher [TEE-guh VIT-rock BER-ker] was no…

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