Posts Tagged ‘The Plant List’
March 30, 2022 Henry Wotton, Paul-Marie Verlaine, Vincent van Gogh, The Plant List, Writing Wild by Kathryn Aalto, and Charles Lathrop-Pack
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 1568 Birth of Henry Wotton, English writer and diplomat. Fascinated by Italian gardens, he described the “garden of surprise” in his Elements…
Read MoreThe Plant List: How Missouri Botanical Garden Led a Global Effort to Standardize Plant Names
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 30, 2003 Dearest reader, On this day, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram brought to light a challenge as vast and intricate as a sprawling hedge maze: the monumental task of naming every plant…
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