Posts Tagged ‘Sir Joseph Hooker’
Dietrich Brandis: The Father of Indian Forestry and Pioneer of Tropical Forest Management
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 31, 1824 Dearest reader, On this day, the world witnessed the birth of Dietrich Brandis—a man whose legacy is as deeply rooted in the Indian subcontinent as the teak trees he…
Read MoreNovember 1, 2020 Carl Linnaeus, Charles Eliot, John Lindley, Russell Page, Maggie Dietz, The Garden-Fresh Vegetable Cookbook by Andrea Chesman, and John Lindley’s Unmade Bed
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 1783 Carl Linnaeus, the Father of Taxonomy, who gave us the binomial naming system and brought order to the botanical world, passed…
Read MorePreparing for Sumatra: John Lindley in London
While researching John Lindley, I stumbled upon an adorable story about him. John arrived in England when he was a teenager. Naturally, he needed a place to stay, so Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker graciously took him in and gave him a room at his home called Halesworth. The story goes that, over a few weeks,…
Read MoreGeorge Bentham: The Botanist Who Made Plants Understandable for All
Flora of The British Islands Today is the anniversary of the death of the remarkable English botanist George Bentham who died on this day in 1884. He was going to be an attorney, but he decided to pursue botany after a time spent living in the country. Bentham wrote a Flora of the British Islands…
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