Kelowna Flower Gardens

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) was a Swedish botanist and physician, who studied at Lund University and then continued with medicine at Uppsala University. He wrote his doctoral thesis, Systema Naturae; the creation of Binomial Nomenclature, one of the pivotal works ever written in scientific literature. This document organized the Kingdoms of Nature, in a table structure and allowed for classification of plants, flowers and species of all types, including minerals and animals. This created the opportunity to further develop and to be studied intensely. He traverses from Uppsala to Stockholm, Vaxjo, Stenbrohult, Lund, Hamburg, Harderwijk, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, London and Oxford where he worked and studied. He became a professor in Botany at Uppsala University in 1741. The Linean Society of London