May 15, 2019 Plant Height, Isaac Newton, President Lincoln, the USDA, Charles Sprague Sargent, the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve, Ettie C. Alexander, the NOLA Museum of Art, Emily Dickinson, Ina Coolbrith, Top-dressing, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Plant height is one of the factors often indicated on plant tags.
But mature height often takes ten years - especially if you're talking about trees and shrubs.
Most plants benefit from some pruning, which can help control their height.
BTW, Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on the planet. It can grow 3 feet in just 24 hours.
Botanical History On This Day
1862 Abraham Lincoln created the United States Department of Agriculture, appointing farmer and consummate networker Isaac Newton as its first commissioner. He believed deeply in coaxing two blades of grass from soil that once yielded only one. Abraham Lincoln
1895 The Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve was established when Governor David B. Hill signed legislation ensuring the land would be forever kept as wild forest, a promise still traced today by the famous blue line on the map.
1898 Ettie C. Alexander published her haunting article The Prettiest Wild Flowers in the San Francisco Call, documenting both the beauty of California’s blooms and their alarming decline, along with her mysterious, never-revealed preservation methods.
2019 The New Orleans Museum of Art unveiled the expansion of its beloved Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, adding acres of planting, water, and art to one of the most admired cultural landscapes in the country. New Orleans Museum of Art
Unearthed Words
1886 Emily Dickinson died on this day, a poet who gardened as she wrote, freely and with devotion, leaving behind verses where bees draw sherry from clover and daffodils untie their yellow bonnets.
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Read The Daily Gardener’s review of Ina Coolbrith: The Bittersweet Song of California’s First Poet Laureate by Aleta George, a portrait of a woman whose poems bloomed among the wildflowers of the West.
Buy the book on Amazon: Ina Coolbrith by Aleta George
Today's Botanic Spark
1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, and Stanton, ever the gardener of ideas, reached back to Eden itself to remind the world that curiosity has always been a form of cultivation.
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