Posts Tagged ‘William Withering’
October 6, 2022 Garlic Lovers Day, Charles Wilkins Short, William Withering, Jean-André Soulié, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Creating a Garden Retreat by Virginia Johnson, and Gilles Clément
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 Today is Garlic Lovers Day 1794 Birth of Charles Wilkins Short, American botanist and doctor. 1799 Death of the English botanist geologist,…
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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 6, 1799 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, we bid farewell to a luminary in the world of botany and medicine. William Withering, that most accomplished English botanist, geologist, physician, and chemist,…
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Fond of Foxgloves March 17, 1741 Today is the birthday of the English botanist geologist, physician, and chemist William Withering. William became the very first person to study the bioactivity of the flower known as Digitalis or Foxglove. In this respect, William’s training as a physician served him well. And the story goes that one…
Read MoreMarch 17, 2021 How to Decorate for Spring, William Withering, Penelope Lively, Ernst Dieffenbach, Garden Design Review by Ralf Knoflach and Robert Schäfer, and Arthur’s Shurcliff’s Revival Garden Design
Today we celebrate a man who revealed the medicinal properties of Digitalis or Foxglove. We’ll also learn about an English author and gardener who wrote about the gardens of her life, and she turns 88 years old today. We hear an excerpt about a Scientist, Explorer, revolutionary, and Outcast who became one of New Zealand’s Great…
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