August 30, 2019 Removing Sick or Injured Plants, Lancelot Brown or Capability, Agoston Haraszthy, Deer-Resistant Design by Karen Chapman, Installing more Paths, and the First Tulips

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Now is the perfect time to play doctor in the garden.

Look for the sick or injured. Look for plants that haven't thrived, those with disease, and those riddled with pests.

You don't want to leave any diseased plants in your garden over the winter. If you can do only one fall garden chore, taking out the sick and infirm is what you want to do.

All these babies get dug up and escorted out of my garden. Generally, I say that nothing green or brown leaves the property, but these are items I don't dare chop and drop, or compost - these sick plants go out.

Botanical History On This Day

1716 Lancelot “Capability” Brown was born, the visionary landscape designer whose gift for seeing the “capabilities” of land transformed English gardens into pastoral works of art still cherished today.

1812 Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian nobleman and later the father of California viticulture, was born—an adventurer whose passion for wine reshaped American vineyards and left a legacy rooted in Sonoma’s hills.

Unearthed Words

A misty August remembered in fog, flowers, and salt air—Words from *Sweet Salt Air* by Barbara Delinsky evoke a coastal summer where scent and color linger like a well-kept secret.

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Read The Daily Gardener review of Deer-Resistant Design by Karen Chapman

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Today's Botanic Spark

1962 A charming newspaper account revisits the origins of tulips—from Constantinople to Holland and into the heart of tulip mania, where beauty briefly outweighed reason.

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