
Stems Leaves & Roots with Dani
This podcast is about everything plants. It is in episodic format. The first few were dedicated to kitchen gardens. I talk about indoor plants and making your gardens stress-free. And on a budget!
I also have minis on women who paved the way for women like myself in this industry. From the first to get degrees in horticulture, to the women who made it easier for us modern gals to study at places like Burnley
In 2025, I start a new imagining of bites. These are about my favourite plants and how you will also fall in love with them. I will tell you about how to grow them.
In the future, I hope to have some interviews with women in horticulture of today.
Stems Leaves & Roots with Dani
Mini 8 Caroline"Louisa" Atkinson 1834-1872
Apologies for the hiatus that gripped me through Winter. Will be touching more on this in the next full episode.
Apologies also for the horrendous pronunciation of certain words, for example, notoriety and Latin names of plants. (A blooper reel will be coming out with me stumbling over such words)
This lady was known in the plant world, literary world, and Art world. She also dabbled in geology and was remembered as a woman who didn't conform to the women of that era. Opting for trousers instead of the frilly dresses, hats, and gloves of that era.
References:
https://www.kurrajonghistory.org.au/millstones/wm_2015_01.pdf - article on Fernhurst
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mueller-sir-ferdinand-jakob-heinrich-von-4266
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/atkinson-caroline-louisa-2910
https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000072b.htm
Allen, J. (2005). Louisa Atkinson as naturalist. MARGIN: Monash Australiana Research Group Informal Notes, (67), 15–21. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200605219
https://bmnature.info/conservation-people-louisa-atkinson.shtml
https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/atkinson-louisa.html
https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/atkinson-caroline-louisa-2910
Carolin, Roger C, and Tindale, Mary, 1994, Flora of the Sydney Region, 4th Edition,
Reed, Sydney, ISBN 0 7301 0400 1.
Clarke, Patricia, 1990, Pioneer Writer, The life of Louisa Atkinson: novelist, journalist, naturalist,
Allen and Unwin Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney, ISBN 0 04 442267 9
Fairley, Alan, and Moore, Philip, 2000, Native Plants of the Sydney District, an Identification Guide, 2nd Edition,
Kangaroo Press, Sydney, ISBN 0 7318 1031 7.
Lawson, Elizabeth, 1995, The Natural Art of Louisa Atkinson,
State Library of New South Wales, ISBN 0 7305 8934 X (pbk).
https://www.nla.gov.au/sites/default/files/louisa.pdf
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Thank you to Maddy Thorpe for the artwork. Thank you to Phyllis King for her research.
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