May 23, 2019 Growing as a Gardener, Carl Linnaeus, the Centigrade thermometer, Commelina genus, Sjupp the Raccoon, the Hamburg Hydra, Linnaea borealis or Twinflower, August Strindberg, Planting Cannas, Martin Hoffman, and Linnaeus’ Lapland Costume

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Monologue

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote,

"But these young scholars... love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, and all their botany is Latin names."

There is more to gardening than nomenclature, and more than nomenclature, there's actually growing and knowing plants.

Botanical History On This Day

1707 Carl Linnaeus, the Father of Taxonomy, was born. His 1753 masterpiece Species Plantarum introduced binomial nomenclature and permanently ordered the botanical world with genus, species, and a tidy trailing “L.”

Unearthed Words

Linnaeus the writer emerges through his rhythmic, scripture-influenced prose — a reminder that the great classifier was also, as Strindberg observed, a poet who happened to become a naturalist.

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Read The Daily Gardener review of Linnaeus: The Man and His Work by Sten Lindroth, Gunnar Eriksson, Gunnar Broberg, and Tore Frängsmyr

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Today's Botanic Spark

Linnaeus in Lapland recalls the young botanist’s arduous northern expedition. His adventure inspired a famous portrait depicting him in full Lapland dress, clutching his beloved twinflower, Linnaea borealis.

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