"L" is for Logan, Martha Daniell [1704-1779]. Horticulturist. When her father died in 1718, Martha Daniell inherited 48,000 acres on the Wando River and her father’s nursery business. Although she received a traditional girl’s education, she learned to cultivate plants from her father and several friends. Because landscaping with rare plants had become a favorite pastime among wealthy Charlestonians, Logan realized that amateur gardeners needed advice. She published the “Gardener’s Kalendar,” which became a standard text for colonial South Carolina gardeners, and contributed a gardening guide for John Tobler’s South Carolina Almanack. She exchanged seeds with other botanical enthusiasts, including John Bartram, who praised her in his letters to friends in London. As a professional horticulturist, Martha Daniell Logan sold roots, cuttings, bulbs, plants, and seeds at her nursery that was located on the Green, near Trott’s Point.
"L" is for Logan, Martha Daniell [1704-1779]
