July 22, 2019 Drying Flowers, Asa Gray, Hugh Algernon Weddell, Cornelius Herman (“Neil”) Muller, Louise Klein Miller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Secret Gardens of the Cotswolds by Victoria Summerley, Preparing a Spot for Flower Drying, and the San Jose scale
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Have you ever tried drying flowers?
Successfully drying one of your favorite flowers is such a joy.
Some flowers look even better when they are dried.
There are many options for drying flowers; air drying is the simplest. Then, of course, there's pressing.
If you've never tried drying a bloom in the sand, you should give it a shot. Just fill a microwave-safe container with a layer of silica sand. Put the flower on top of the sand and then bury the bloom in the sand. Place the bloom along with a cup of water in the microwave. Heat in the microwave in 30-second increments. Your flower should be dried in 2-3 minutes.
Botanical History On This Day
1842 Asa Gray arrived at Harvard, beginning a quiet revolution in American botany grounded in scholarship rather than oratory.
1877 Hugh Algernon Weddell, physician and botanist, died after tracing the Cinchona tree, the vital source of quinine, across South America.
1909 Cornelius Herman “Neil” Muller, botanist and ecologist who pioneered the study of allelopathy, was born.
1938 Louise Klein Miller, pioneering landscape architect, was recognized upon her retirement after decades of stewarding Cleveland’s Memorial Gardens.
Unearthed Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson reflects on summer, fullness, and mortality in
“Our fear of death…”
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Today's Botanic Spark
A classroom moment involving horticulture, librarians, and perfect comic timing in “Go to the music department.”
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