October 23, 2019 An Inspiring Home Landscape by a Forest, Budburst.org, Ludwig Leichhardt, Annie Lorrain Smith, François-André Michaux, Bonnie Templeton, Neltje Blanchan, New Vegetable Garden Techniques by Joyce Russell, Harvesting Black Walnuts, and Ernest Thompson Seton
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Andrew van Egmond recently wrote a post on Landezine called Into the Forest.
A Dutch garden became a forest you can float through, thanks to Andrew van Egmond’s “Into the Forest”—a design of boardwalks and long, clean lines that makes you feel (delightfully) like a guest in the landscape.
And Budburst—Chicago Botanic Garden’s citizen-science project—invited us to “Fall into Phenology,” recording more than leaf drop: asters in bloom, seeds setting, fruits ripening—tiny observations that, gathered together, become climate insight.
Botanical History On This Day
1813 Ludwig Leichhardt, Prussian botanist and famed Australian plant collector, was born—he mourned the loss of thousands of specimens to disaster, then vanished in 1848 on an expedition that swallowed him and his party whole.
1854 Annie Lorrain Smith, British lichenologist, was born—an unpaid (in name) museum assistant for 46 years who became one of the world’s leading experts in lichen taxonomy and the first female president of the British Mycological Society.
1855 François-André Michaux died—son of André Michaux, and a man so devoted to North American trees that, even in France, he spent his last day planting American specimens and directing his journeyman.
1906 Bonnie Templeton was born, a Los Angeles botanist who entered the field through a job found at an employment agency, became curator of botany at 23, and later championed native landscaping and “Wild Victory Gardens” long before the phrase had charm.
Unearthed Words
1865 Nature writer Neltje Blanchan was born—and gave us Bluebirds in Autumn, lingering “like the last leaves on the tree,” a bright little farewell as summer slips away.
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Today's Garden Chore
Celebrate fall by harvesting black walnuts—glove up for the inky husks, expect the nutmeat in pieces, and keep husks out of compost since black walnut compounds can be toxic to many plants.
Today's Botanic Spark
1946 Ernest Thompson Seton died. He was a naturalist, writer, and one of the founders of the Boy Scouts who found refuge in the woods as a child and never stopped insisting that kinship with nature is part of what makes us fully human.
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