From Railroad to Orchard: The Remarkable Journey of Ivan Michurin

Michurin walking in the garden c. 1934.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 7, 1935 On this day, dear cultivators of curiosity and admirers of horticultural ingenuity, we bid farewell to a true titan of the botanical world. Ivan Michurin, the Russian botanist and plant…

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Garden of Injustice: Remembering Nikolay Vavilov’s Sacrifice for Science

Vavilov. Nikolai Ivanovich 1887-1943 Professor of Botany and Director of the Lenin All Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences Leningrad.

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 9, 1941 On this day, dear readers, a most peculiar travesty of justice unfolded in the frigid chambers of a Soviet court. The esteemed Russian botanist Nikolay Vavilov—a man who dedicated his…

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