October 8, 2019 Daily Gardener Merchandise, Johann Baptist Ziz, William Swainson, Hardy Croom, Elizabeth Agassiz, Growing Herbs by Thomas DeBaggio, Burying Hens and Chicks, and Fall Color with Kelly Norris
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Botanical History On This Day
1779 Johann Baptist Ziz, German botanist and namesake of the genus Zizia, was born—forever linked to Golden Alexanders, that long-blooming, pollinator-feeding charmer with a knack for selling out like the best gossip at tea.
1789 William Swainson, English naturalist and unwavering believer in the quinarian system, was born—later writing tenderly to his son that a garden, as Bacon said, is “the purest of human pleasures.”
1797 Hardy Bryan Croom, Florida botanist and discoverer of the rare Torreya taxifolia, was born—his story marked by botanical devotion, tragic shipwreck, and the shadowed legacy of a tree that still clings to a single stretch of the Apalachicola.
1877 Elizabeth Agassiz met with Longfellow about her early chapters of Life of Agassiz—a woman remembered strolling her borders with a basket and shears, filling rooms with lemon verbena and heliotrope, and soon shaping what would become Radcliffe.
Unearthed Words
Two October lines—one ablaze with poplars, the other quietly reverent—reminding us that autumn is the season of mature beauty.
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Today's Botanic Spark
2009 Botanist Kelly Norris wrote a fall “Candy Shop” of favorite plants—smoketree, fothergilla, fringetree, seven-son flower—proving that even the most ordinary red twig dogwood can astonish when you look closely.
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