Georgia O’Keeffe: How to Make Flowers Impossible to Ignore

Georgia O'Keeffe as a teaching assistant to Alon Bement at the University of Virginia in 1915

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 15, 1887 On this day, Georgia O’Keeffe was born – an artist who would revolutionize how we see flowers through her bold, modernist vision. Over her remarkable career, O’Keeffe created more than…

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The Painter’s Garden: Anna Massey Lea Merritt’s Natural Inspirations

Anna Lea Merritt, 1885

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. September 13, 1844 On this day, a most extraordinary soul entered our world – Anna Massey Lea Merritt, whose life would bloom like a carefully tended English garden, rich with both artistic achievement…

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A Forgotten Flower: Minnie Aumonier, Artist and Poet

Minnie Aumonier's Home

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 2, 1865: Minnie Aumonier, English artist and poet, was born. Minnie was a woman of remarkable wit, passion, and creativity. Her work is a testament to the beauty of nature and the…

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Ellen Bowditch Thayer Fisher: Brushstrokes of Botanical Brilliance

Ellen Bowditch Thayer Fisher

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 16, 1847 On this day, dear admirers of botanical artistry, we celebrate the birth of Ellen Bowditch Thayer Fisher, an American botanical illustrator whose delicate brushstrokes would capture the essence of nature’s…

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Brushstrokes and Bequeathments: The Extraordinary Life of Mary Hiester Reid

Mary Hiester Reid

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 24, 1854 On this day in 1854, the extraordinary floral still-life painter Mary Hiester Reid entered the world—a woman whose brushstrokes captured nature’s fleeting beauty with such exquisite delicacy that one might…

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