Posts Tagged ‘William Herbert’
William Herbert: The Dean Who Renamed Your Christmas Bulbs
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 28, 1847 Today marks the departure of William Herbert from our mortal garden—a man whose taxonomic meddling continues to vex gardeners nearly two centuries hence. This distinguished botanist, scholar, poet, and clergyman—who…
Read MoreMay 28, 2019 Unkind Garden Advice, William Herbert, Hippeastrum, Carl Richard Nyberg, Amaryllis and Alteo, Amaryllis Poem, Minta Collins, Medieval Herbs, Exposed Tree Roots and the Wentworth Lilacs of New Hampshire
Gardeners. Horticultural experts. Professors, even. On the garden path, you can, from time to time, run into people that decimate you faster than a Japanese Beetle on green beans. Let’s just set one thing straight. Gardening is good for you, but people who give garden advice can be bad for you. What they fail to…
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