June 6, 2019 Annuals Budget, National Gardening Exercise Day, Andrea Cesalpino, VC Andrews, Gordon Hayward, Hannah Rebecca Hudson, We Made a Garden, Marjorie Fish, Asparagus, the Hawaii State Flower, Hibiscus, and the Hawaiian Airlines image
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I made another trip to the garden center today; that's my fourth of this week.
The reason I keep going back is that they're clearancing out the annuals already.
When it comes to my garden budget, I try to be as frugal as possible - especially with annuals.
I'm not too picky when it comes to the types of annuals; I focus on color - buying blooms of purples, pinks, and whites.
Today, I bought annuals in the large pots for just $3 apiece. I was standing there, filling my cart while everyone around me was buying all the full-price annuals. Go figure.
Botanical History On This Day
2019 National Gardening Exercise Day reminds us that while gardening soothes the spirit, it also strengthens the body. Every spadeful of soil is a quiet but earnest workout.
1519 Andrea Cesalpino, Italian physician and botanist, was born on this day; by classifying plants by fruits and seeds rather than medicine or alphabet, he helped establish botany as a science and authored what is considered the first textbook of the discipline.
1923 V.C. Andrews was born on this day, forever associated with her gothic garden-themed novels, most famously Flowers in the Attic, where floral imagery masked deeply unsettling family secrets.
2019 Gordon Hayward presents The Intimate Garden, sharing the story of the 14 garden rooms he and his wife, Mary, shaped around their historic Connecticut farmhouse, guided by practicality, patience, and a shovel always close at hand.
Unearthed Words
Hannah Rebecca Hudson, poet and gardener, is remembered on the anniversary of her death — her poem My Garden crowning the gardener not as ruler of nature, but as its joyful and attentive queen.
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Today's Garden Chore
Add asparagus to the back of ornamental beds.
This patient perennial blends quietly into the border, rewarding gardeners who plant now and wait — harvesting sparingly at first, then generously in seasons to come.
Today's Botanic Spark
1923 The Hibiscus of Hawaii blooms as the official state flower.
Fifty years later, Hawaiian Airlines introduced its new corporate image. It included the state flower, the hibiscus, and the profile of an island girl. The symbol was named "Pualani," meaning "Flower of the Sky."
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