June 24, 2019 Where to Plant Lilies, Thomas Blanchard, Stephen Endlicher, Kona Coffee, Queen Elizabeth’s Cerus Atlantica Glauca, Paul McCartney, John Ciardi, Plant Names Simplified by Arthur Johnson, Joe Pye weed, Aven Nelson and the Rocky Mountain Herbarium
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Did you know that lilies enjoy being planted in part shade?
They don't really like to be baked in full sun.
If you plant them in a bit of shade, it will allow your plants to experience less stress and thus elongate their stems.
Lilies that are grown in full sun tend to be shorter and more stout.
In nature, lilies grow in dappled light at the edges of woods and meadows.
Botanical History On This Day
1788 Thomas Blanchard, a self-taught American inventor, was born. He was a youthful tinkerer who devised a mechanical apple parer at just thirteen and helped usher in ingenuity into everyday agricultural life.
1804 Stephan Endlicher was born in Pressburg and went on to shape plant taxonomy through his landmark work Genera Plantarum, even as financial hardship and scholarly devotion ultimately cost him his life.
1817 Coffee on the Kona Coast took root when the first plants were established in Hawaiʻi. Coffee thrived in volcanic soil and mountain shelter, and later earned praise from Mark Twain himself.
1977 Queen Elizabeth II marked her Silver Jubilee by planting a striking Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’, a living emblem of endurance and ceremony on the palace lawn.
1989 Flowers in the Dirt, Paul McCartney’s critically acclaimed album, reached number one in England, which proves that botanical titles bloom just as readily in music as in gardens.
Unearthed Words
1916 The poet John Ciardi was born. He understood language as something planted, tended, and allowed to grow across the seasons of thought.
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Today's Botanic Spark
1899 A camping mishap recorded in Yellowstone led Aven Nelson and his companions to formalize their work, which ultimately launched the Rocky Mountain Herbarium after a summer spent pressing 30,000 plant specimens.
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