July 3, 2019 Clearance Plants, Gilbert Laing Meason, Michael Keens, Lambertus Bobbink, William Henry Davies, Grow in the Dark by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, Hakonechloa All Gold, Richard Evans Schultes, and Calvin Sperling

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Sometimes the plant gods smile on you with a clearance sale featuring something genuinely spectacular like Japanese Forest Grass or, in this case, Hakonechloa 'All Gold.'

My local Lowe's was clearancing them for $3 a pop - and it was just what the plant doctor ordered to dress up our cabin up north.

In 2009, my garden idol, Margaret Roach, tweeted, "Another plant I cannot garden without Hakonechloa 'All Gold.' Solid gold in the shade."

She's right.

Botanical History On This Day

1796 Gilbert Laing Meason was born.
A friend of Sir Walter Scott, Meason coined the term landscape architecture in 1828—an idea later carried forward by Loudon, Downing, and ultimately Frederick Law Olmsted, though Meason himself never lived to see its lasting influence.

1806 Michael Keens exhibited the first large, cultivated strawberry at the Royal Horticultural Society.
His achievement helped usher in the modern strawberry, a fruit whose lineage traces from the Andes to France thanks to the careful stewardship of Amédée François Frézier.

1939 Lambertus C. Bobbink was honored at the New York Botanical Garden.
Immigrating from Holland, Bobbink co-founded Bobbink & Atkins and helped establish hybrid tea roses in America, leaving a living legacy in gardens nationwide.

Unearthed Words

1871 William Henry Davies was born.
A lover of birds and butterflies, Davies wrote with gentle wonder—so much so that George Bernard Shaw penned the preface to his autobiography.

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Today's Botanic Spark

1993 Calvin R. Sperling became the first recipient of the Richard Evans Schultes Award.
Honored for his tireless fieldwork and conservation efforts, Sperling’s discoveries—especially of cold-hardy apricots—expanded what gardeners believed possible.

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