February 5, 2021 Carnation History, John Lindley, Karl Theodor Hartweg, Botanists Getting Home Alive, Cadwallader Colden by Seymour Schwartz, and Celebrating Friedrich Welwitsch
Today we celebrate a botanist and orchidologist who saved Kew,
We'll also learn about an orchid hunter who collected plants on behalf of the London Horticultural Society.
We hear some words about the challenging experience of a botanist in 1874.
We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about one of America's earliest botanists and the father of America's first female botanist.
And then we'll wrap things up with a story of a plant that Joseph Dalton Hooker described as "The ugliest yet [most] botanically magnificent plant in the world."
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