Mulford B. Foster (1888-1978) - American horticulturist known for extensive plant explorations of South America.

It was also an era of great plant explorations, with lilacs, kiwis, flowering cherries, lilies, mimosas and all kinds of other ornamentals flooding in from Asia.

They include essays exploring fantasy gardens, fiction about gardens and articles on early plant explorations in the New World and gardens as they relate to music.

The advent of book publishing ushered in an exuberant age of plant exploration and discovery.

Waddick is a plant hunter in the literal sense, but there are other, equally valuable forms of plant exploration going on in backyards and cold frames across the country.

They are saddened, and some are enraged, to be locked out of a place that transformed a backyard hobby into a globetrotting adventure in plant exploration.

His son continued his father's plant explorations and in his own studies developed as a nature artist.

Works abound on the history of plant exploration, and biographies of botanists, horticulturists, and botanical artists.

Recent plant explorations revealed more additions to the known plant species of the area some of which turned out to be new to science, and endemic to the locality.

Most modern house plants have roots in the Victorian era, when plant exploration was at its height and nurseries carried an endless bounty of listings for their eager customers.