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Seeds of Change: Rosa Parks and the Yellow Dress That Bloomed into History

Rosa Parks with her Floral Fabric as the Backdrop

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. December 1, 1955 On this day, dear readers, a seamstress named Rosa Parks boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, unknowingly stitching herself into the very fabric of history. Let us, for a…

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 24, 1825 Devoted cultivators of both gardens and justice, today we honor the birth of one whose pen planted seeds of change across our nation – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, whose legacy…