September 23, 2019 The Autumn Equinox, Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Plants by Lewis and Clark, Stuart Robertson, Ruth Patrick, Poems about September, Plant Parenting by Leslie Halleck, Moving Plants, and the 1937 Rose Garden in Hershey, Pennsylvania
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Monologue
Today is the first day of Autumn, also referred to as the Autumn Equinox.
Equinox means ‘equal night.’
On this day, both day and night are nearly the same length.
Thereafter, the dark part of the year begins.
Botanical History On This Day
1215 Kubla Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, was born. He was later immortalized by Coleridge’s dream-poem of the pleasure-dome and perfumed gardens at Xanadu.
1806 Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis with journals and plant specimens, introducing Americans to natives we now know as purple coneflower, wild rice, creeping juniper, and more.
2009 Stuart Robertson, beloved Montreal gardener, columnist, and broadcaster, died. He is remembered for organic wisdom, gracious optimism, and his final words on the season’s inevitable close.
2013 Ruth Patrick, pioneering diatomist and environmental scientist, died at 105, leaving behind a legacy that taught us the smallest organisms speak the loudest truths about pollution.
Unearthed Words
As September loosens summer’s grip, Beverly Ashour and Mike Garofalo capture the season in goldenrod, gusts, and the quiet signals that autumn has arrived.
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Today's Garden Chore
Now is the moment to divide and move overgrown plants — cool air above, warm soil below, and roots eager to settle before winter.
Today's Botanic Spark
1937 A Pennsylvania newspaper marveled at the Hershey Rose Garden, where thousands of roses in massive single-variety beds crowned a September that refused to fade quietly.
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