Hold on to your gardening hats, my friends, because come late February, Princeton University Press is going to be publishing Dr. Ross Bayton’s “The Gardener’s Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names.”
The Gardener’s Botanical
Botany
Be It Resolved
This past summer, I once again took up Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle, as my “daily morning read” for most of July and a bit of August. This was perhaps the third or fourth time I’d read the book, but like so many works to which I return, I find I discover something newly […]
Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants
“Most of us think of Darwin at work on The Beagle, taking inspiration for his theory of evolution from his travels in the Galapagos.” So opens the Profile Books’ introduction to Dr. Ken Thompson’s recently published “Darwin’s Wonderful Plants.” I know I certainly did. That is, of course, until I made a visit to Down House this past summer and saw for myself his remarkable greenhouse and gardens, where he spent the decades following the return from his famous voyage cultivating and experimenting upon plants – particularly carnivorous and climbing ones.
A Botanical Awakening
It was during a walk near Radley Lakes with my friends Jo and Chris that I first suddenly took notice of the isolated curious brown stalks with the odd curling bits all around their tops. We had been stooping our way through what was once a water meadow but of more recent use as a […]