November 13, 2019 Coleus Cuttings, Air Plants, Make a Christmas Seedhead Wreath, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frederick Lueders, Chrysanthemum Show, Howard Scott Gentry, Square Foot Gardening 3rd Edition, Houseplant Spa Day, and Bedding Plants as Wealth Indicators

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Coleus Cuttings | @WDCGardener

I can't think of anyone I'd rather learn to take Coleus Cuttings from than @WDCGardener and her cat Santino - who is THE master when it comes to supervising cuttings. Btw Santino means "little saint" Aw...

Recommended Air Plants | HEIRLOOM GARDENER

Know Thy Air Plants -

Here's a nice little post from Heirloom Gardener to help you Tell Your Air Plants Apart.

My favorite? Tillandsia xerographica - “Queen of Tillandsias.”

I recently saw one in a wedding bouquet. Long Live the Queen!

Make a Christmas seedhead wreath | @GardensIllustrated

I. Cannot. Stand. How. Adorable. This. IS! Just when I thought I was out of the garden... You pull me back in! @GardensIllustrated came up with this adorable project: make a Christmas seedhead wreath. I love this idea for the She Shed at the cabin.

Botanical History On This Day

1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish writer who dedicated A Child’s Garden of Verses to his nurse Alison Cunningham and befriended Herbert Jekyll, forever linking the Jekyll name to his famous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was born.

1843 Frederick Lueders’s botanical losses occurred along the Columbia River when rapids claimed three years’ worth of specimens, instruments, and correspondence, leaving him with only his battered copy of Torrey and Gray’s Flora and a lifetime of memories he later carried to Wisconsin.

1916 The 16th annual chrysanthemum show in Washington, D.C. drew record crowds to a riot of yellow and lavender blooms, proving public passion for chrysanthemums as visitors begged to buy seeds of favorites like ‘Queen Mary’ and the little lavender pompons.

1982 Howard Scott Gentry, the “elder statesman” of botany and world authority on agaves, was profiled for his mule-borne collecting trips, USDA explorations, and lifelong preference for plants over people.

Unearthed Words

November’s farewell: poems by B. Cybrill and Richard Henry Stoddard — wool sweaters, wild November rains, and a month that seems destined to “weep, and weep again.”

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Read The Daily Gardener review of Square Foot Gardening, Third Edition by Mel Bartholomew

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Today's Botanic Spark

2010 Jane Powers on bedding plants and status — an Irish Times piece revealing that in the 19th century, the number of bedding plants you ordered quietly signaled your rank: 10,000 for a squire, up to 40,000 for a duke.

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