Posts Tagged ‘Sylvia Edlund’
August 15, 2019 Garden Turmoil, Karl von Schreibers, Elias Magnus Friesz, John Torrey, Walter Crane, Geoff Hamilton, W.H. Auden, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr, Pickerel Weed, and Sylvia Edlund
Last week was one of turmoil in my garden. We decided to put new windows and siding on the house. Then we decided to enjoy the ravages of a hail storm which dumped ping pong ball sized hail on the garden for about five minutes – the entire storm lasted 30 minutes. I always remind…
Read MoreRemembering Botanist and Artist Sylvia Edlund: A Plant Pioneer with a Tender Heart
“Sylvia was a sickly child and often confined to her bed. She said she took up botany because she thought she shouldn’t study anything she’d have to chase” August 15, 1945 On this day, the botanist Sylvia Edlund was born in Pittsburgh. She earned a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Chicago. Sylvia…
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