June 14, 2019 Sunflowers, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ruth Stout, President Harding, G. K. Chesterton, Emily Dickinson, In Bloom by Clare Nolan, Photo Friday, and Making Pineapple Flowers

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Are you planning to grow Sunflowers this year?

Five years ago, Hans-Peter Schiffer toppled the Guinness World Record for the third year in a row - growing a sunflower that was 30'1" tall!

Over at the Facebook group for the show, you can check out a time-lapse video of sunflowers growing from seed to seed heads; just search for The Daily Gardener Community the next time you're on Facebook and request to join.

Botanical History On This Day

1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was born. She wove the Victorian language of flowers into her novel, using roses, ferns, geraniums, and a single white camellia to speak of love, suffering, memory, and purity.

1884 Ruth Stout, garden writer and philosopher of mulch, was born. She left a legacy of wit, honesty, and the radical idea that gardening should bring joy, not drudgery.

1922 President Warren G. Harding was heard on the radio for the first time, just a year after opening the White House grounds for public garden parties. His garden later welcomed Marie Curie and a gram of priceless radium.

Unearthed Words

1936 G. K. Chesterton, the “prince of paradox” and creator of Father Brown, is remembered for prose that wandered easily between gardens, philosophy, and truth, sometimes punctuated by arrows shot thoughtfully into the garden.

Grow That Garden Library™

Read The Daily Gardener review of In Bloom: Growing, Harvesting and Arranging Flowers All Year Round by Clare Nolan

Buy the book on Amazon: In Bloom by Clare Nolan

Today's Botanic Spark

A simple kitchen alchemy helps create pineapple flowers. They bloom when thin slices of pineapple are gently dried, which is another reminder that beauty often reveals itself when we slow things down.

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