October 29, 2019 Redesigning Your Garden, Preparing for Winter, Sir Walter Raleigh, Augustin Gattinger, William Chapman, Jamie Taggert, Carl Sandburg, Sowing Beauty by James Hitchmough, a Garden-Themed Thanksgiving, and the Ayurvedic Principals for Gardeners
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Curated News
The blog of the award-winning Landscape team of Warnes McGarr @warnesmcgarr recently shared a very beneficial post called "Five things to consider before redesigning your garden."
As a northern gardener, I love that they recommend using the colder months to plan the garden. The design team encourages us to ask this question:
"Do you use your garden enough, or is it an afterthought?"
Meanwhile, Gardens Illustrated posted How to Prepare the Garden for Winter and shared a few useful tasks to tackle right now.
In addition to general tidying up, suggestions like using a power washer to clean your stonework, setting up your bird feeders (something we discussed yesterday), and cleaning and culling your pot collection are excellent activities to accomplish as we transition into winter.
Botanical History On This Day
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh was executed after thirteen years imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he tended a small apothecary garden and experimented with herbs, cordials, and remedies worthy of a court physician.
1908 Augustin Gattinger and the Gattingeri clematis were recalled when botanist Thomas G. Harbison visited Nashville to collect the rare clematis for Harvard—spotlighting the “Pioneer Botanist of Tennessee” and the lasting joy Gattinger found in botany.
1970 William Henry Chapman, American botanist and fruit specialist, died—remembered for the idea that trees have “character,” and that their dormant buds model resilience in a destructive world (for plants and people alike).
2013 Jamie Taggart, a young Scottish botanist, began a solo plant expedition to Vietnam—an aching modern story of botanical devotion and the perilous reach for discovery.
Unearthed Words
Carl Sandburg’s Autumn Movement reminds us that beauty is always arriving and always leaving— a spare, bracing poem for the season of change.
Grow That Garden Library™
Read The Daily Gardener's review of Sowing Beauty by James Hitchmough
Buy the book on Amazon: Sowing Beauty by James Hitchmough
Today's Garden Chore
Build a garden-themed Thanksgiving by gathering long-lasting squashes, creating a mossy yule log centerpiece, and setting a “thankful tree” branch in a cast-iron mini stand for ribbons and gratitude notes.
Today's Botanic Spark
Three ways to transition into fall: As autumn turns us from garden to hearth, Ayurveda suggests we meet the season with more stillness, more warmth, and indoor finishing work—gentle ways to stay grounded when the wind begins to argue at the windows.
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