May 17, 2019 Ready to Garden, Botticelli, George Glenny, Requirements for Plant Explorers, Bernadette Cozart, Rocky Mountain Field Botany Course, Market Garden Workshop at Green Cauldron Farm, James Hunt, The Golden Circle, Hal Borland, and another Photo Friday in the Garden
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Monologue
Are you feeling it yet? The urge to get going in the garden?
I was reading a book from 1915 about spring. It started this way:
"If you are not dead, you will feel the sap start within you..."
Everyone comes to the garden in their own time.
If you're not yet ready to put your pots together or take on gardening the way you did last year, that's completely fine.
Sometimes the seasons of our lives don't align with the seasons of the year.
In seasons of loss or grief or depression, we can lose time. We can be out of sync.
If that is happening to you this season, please know it is ok to take a break.
Instead, enjoy the beauty around you in ways that feel right to you... until you feel the sap start within you again...
Botanical History On This Day
1510 Sandro Botticelli, the Italian Renaissance master, died. He left behind luminous works such as Allegory of Abundance, a vision brimming with fruits and flowers arranged with painterly devotion.
1874 George Glenny, dubbed the horticultural hornet for his sharp pen and sharper opinions, died at 83. He is remembered as a tireless garden writer whose vigorous prose helped make gardening irresistible to the Victorian public.
1934 The Times Herald of Port Huron, Michigan, published a revealing look at plant exploration as a career. It was noted that robust health, good humor, and a tolerance for hardship were essential qualifications for aspiring plant hunters.
1949 Bernadette Cozart was born, later becoming a professional gardener and founder of the Greening of Harlem Coalition, determined to bring gardens and growing spaces directly into urban neighborhoods.
2019 The Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism began its Rocky Mountain Field Botany Certificate Course in Lafayette, Colorado, offering hands-on training in plant identification, ethics, and sustainable harvesting.
2019 Green Cauldron Farm in New Zealand hosted a one-day market gardening workshop in the Tyalgum hills, bringing together growers and educators to share practical wisdom rooted in the soil.
Unearthed Words
May and the Poets by James Henry Leigh Hunt celebrates the month of May as it lives eternally on poets’ shelves, blooming afresh each time a book is opened.
Grow That Garden Library™
Read The Daily Gardener’s review of The Golden Circle by Hal Borland, a month-by-month meditation on nature written with warmth for young readers and the young at heart.
Buy the book on Amazon: The Golden Circle by Hal Borland
Today's Botanic Spark
1874 George Glenny’s final words, sent to press only days before his death, recall a lifetime of auriculas, tulips, floral meetings, and shared knowledge, a gentle reminder that every gardener grows by learning from others.
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And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.
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