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Jun 25, 2019
4 min

Jane Colden: America's First Female Botanist

Jane Colder is now known as America's first female Botanist, but it would take more than a century after her death for the recognition.

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Gertrude Jekyll: One of the Best Plantswomen of All Time

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Mar 30, 2019
2 min

Gertrude Jekyll: One of the Best Plantswomen of All Time

Gertrude Jekyll’s passion and background in art set her up perfectly to make history. Born in London in 1843, Jekyll grew up on her famil...

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Lucy Dinsmore

Mar 22, 2019
7 min

She Put Her Head Down and Persevered

My great-grandmother was a woman who persevered in the face of family tragedy and challenging economic circumstances. Frances Vaughan Gar...

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Lucy Dinsmore

Mar 12, 2019
3 min

Woman of Firsts: Marie Clark Taylor

It took some sleuthing to find this Historic Woman (not of Horticulture) of Botany, but I found her! Marie Clark Taylor (1911-1990) was t...

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Anne Ophelia Dowden: Author and Illustrator

Kathleen Salisbury

Mar 8, 2019
4 min

Anne Ophelia Dowden: Author and Illustrator

“I suppose that if you have a rapport with growing things, it just makes you happy that there is so much of it —even the grass that grows...

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Kathleen Salisbury

Nov 19, 2018
3 min

Carol Lerner: Author and Illustrator

I do not have children so it may seem strange that I do have an extensive collection of garden and nature books for children. Mostly they...

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Cat Meholic

Nov 12, 2018
3 min

Valerie Finnis

1924-2006 | United Kingdom Guest Blogger, Martha Keen, has written the piece below about the dynamic Historic Woman in Hort, Valerie Finn...

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Rachel Burlington

Apr 27, 2018
4 min

Historic Highlight: Rachel Carson

Hi there! For those of you that do not know me, my name is Rachel Burlington and I live in Portland, Oregon. Before I moved here last Jun...

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Cat Meholic

Feb 19, 2018
1 min

Where are the Women's Stories?

During conversations about women in horticulture, someone always asks "What famous women in horticulture do you know?" This is usually me...

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