A Child of the Forest – Heinrich Cotta’s Legacy

Heinrich Cotta

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 30, 1763 It was on this day that Heinrich Cotta [HINE-rick COT-ah] was born beneath the open sky of Kleine Zillbach [KLINE-eh TSIL-bock], Germany. His personal account of his origin story reads…

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The President’s Tree: Harry Truman’s Sugar Maple Moment

Truman planted a sugar maple in NY on Arbor Day, 1958

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 25, 1958 On this day, dear readers, we witness a most presidential act of arboreal affection. Picture, if you will, the scene in New York as former President Harry Truman, his tenure…

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