November 7, 2019 An Ingenious Compost Bin, Hedge Planting Advice, Six Hardy Annuals to Sow Now, Winter’s Day, Warren Manning, Willis Linn Jepson, Irvin Williams, Ruth Pitter, Thoreau, Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katherine White, Outdoor Rugs, and Norman Taylor
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How to Make a Compost Bin for Next to Nothing from Richard Spencer @RS_Garden_Care. I really like the simplicity and functionality of this.
Excellent Hedge Planting Advice from Buckingham Nurseries. It made me think of that saying... The best time to plant a tree (or a hedge) was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.
Six Hardy Annuals to Sow in Autumn for a beautiful Spring & Summer from @theenglishgarde Think California Poppy, Centaurea, Borage, Love-in-a-Mist, Calendula, & Clary sage. I'd also add Cornflower and Larkspur!
Botanical History On This Day
c. 1000 Winter’s Day in the Anglo-Saxon Calendar — in the Old English poem known as the Menologium, November 7th marks the first day of winter, a 92-day season stretching to February 6th.
1860 Warren H. Manning, American landscape designer, Olmsted apprentice, and champion of affordable “wild gardens” who influenced over 1,600 projects and countless communities, was born.
1946 Willis Linn Jepson, “The Botany Man” of California, founder of the Sierra Club with John Muir, creator of the Jepson herbarium and Flora of California, and indefatigable field botanist, died.
2018 Irvin M. Williams, the longest-serving White House horticulturist who helped shape the Rose Garden and tended the famous Merion bluegrass lawn from 1962 to 2008, died at the age of 92.
Unearthed Words
November mist: Ruth Pitter & Henry David Thoreau — poems and journal lines that prune November’s “naked tree” and turn a fine, drizzling day into a roofed, simplified world.
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Today's Botanic Spark
1967 Norman Taylor and the Garden Dictionary — the botanist and author, once tutored by Nathaniel Lord Britton at NYBG, was remembered for his many books and for crafting 33,000 botanical definitions for Webster’s New International Dictionary.
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