Posts Tagged ‘Twinflower’
August 13, 2020 The 10 Berries Birds Love, Peter Kalm, the Snowberry, Edward von Regal, Benedict Roezl, John Gould Vietch, Richard Willstätter, August by Maggie Grant, Not Your Mama’s Canning Book by Rebecca Lindamood, and Albert Ruth’s Twinflower
Today we celebrate an early Swedish explorer of Niagara Falls. We’ll also learn about a plant that Thomas Jefferson loved. We salute the Russian botanist who arranged plants by geography. We also recognize the Czech, who became the most famous collector of orchids in the world. And, we’ll remember the lives of a British plant…
Read MoreFort Worth’s First Botanist, Albert Ruth, and His Mysterious Twinflower Discovery
“Dr. Sharp knew it was NOT a Patridge Berry when he saw the specimen. It was obviously mislabeled. Sharp knew the specimen was a twinflower, the flower named for Carl Linnaeus, the Linnea Borealis – an extremely delicate plant.” August 13, 1892 On this day, the botanist Albert Ruth collected a plant in Sevier County…
Read MoreBlooms and Binomials: Celebrating Carl Linnaeus’ Botanical Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 23, 1707 On this day, a babe was born who would grow to become the most meticulous gardener in history. Not content with merely tending to plants, he would go on to…
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