April 9, 2019 Phebe Lankester, James Sowerby, Joseph Trimble Rothrock, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, Gardeners Question Time, Charles Baudelaire, Katie Daisy, the Toronto Archives, and Joseph Sauriol
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Today's thought is precisely that: How we think when we garden.
Emerson wrote:
Blame me not, laborious band,
For the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand
Comes back laden with a thought.
How wonderful our gardens are for thinking.
Creatively.
Therapeutically.
Soulfully.
Every bloom can be a vessel for an idea, a hurt, or a solution.
I fought with my daughter the other day. We were getting nowhere.
Exasperated, I asked her for help with the houseplants.
In case you're wondering, we were spring-cleaning all the greens - even the fake ones!
There was no talk. No more disagreement.
Just the plants and water and a little soap... and our thoughts.
Before we knew it, we were ready to come together.
Our welfare and happiness are restored by the thoughts knit together in the company of plants.
Botanical History On This Day
1900 Phebe Lankester, British botanist, author, and indefatigable educator, died. Writing for ordinary readers with extraordinary warmth, she taught generations to notice wild flowers, thrift, and the quiet generosity of nature.
1839 Joseph Trimble Rothrock, physician, botanist, Civil War veteran, and Father of Forestry in Pennsylvania, was born. His lifelong campaign transformed Penn’s Woods from devastation to restoration.
1947 Gardeners’ Question Time first aired on BBC Radio, launching a program that has since answered tens of thousands of gardening questions and reassured generations that gardening worries are timeless.
Unearthed Words
1821 Charles Baudelaire was born. He left behind the enduring thought that a book, like a garden, is a place of counsel, company, and abundance.
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Today's Botanic Spark
1938 A Wildflower Garden in Frames shares Canadian naturalist Charles Joseph Sauriol’s tender diary vision of seed frames designed to recreate entire wild landscapes in miniature.
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