November 19, 2019 German Garden Ideas, Christmas Cactus Care, Grave Gardening, Nathan Franklin Barrett, Calvert Vaux, Tennyson, John Tabb, Adventures of a Gardener by Peter Smithers, Place Cards, and Botanical Brothers at Gettysburg
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Germany - Gardenista
Jawohl! @Gardenista Here's 10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Germany. Verdant Practices include rooftop gardens, wildflowers & gardens, Kleingartenkolonies, the one-of-a-kind Prinzessinnengarten, the incredible work of the florist Ursula Wegener and more...
How to care for and reflower your Christmas cactus - MSU Extension (Michigan State University)
There is a simple formula for success with Christmas cactus: organic, humus-rich soil, a cute little pot since they like to be pot-bound, regular watering, cool temps, and 14 hours of darkness per day. Done!
A Year Gardening the Grave of a Stranger - Atlas Obscura
@atlasobscura shared this fascinating post about the kind folks at Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia who beautify gravesites with gardening. The cradle graves are especially poignant for gardeners... https://buff.ly/2Ea1bdC.
Botanical History On This Day
1845 Nathan Franklin Barrett, American landscape architect and co-founder of the ASLA, was born; he planned model towns like Pullman, Illinois, and created an astonishingly varied half-acre garden at his New Rochelle home.
1895 Calvert Vaux, English-born landscape architect and co-designer of New York’s Central Park and Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, died after drowning in Gravesend Bay at age seventy.
Unearthed Words
Alfred, Lord Tennyson and John Banister Tabb offer tender reflections on love, Indian summer, and autumn’s last gold—poems that let us walk the garden paths of memory and season.
Autumn Poems from Tennyson & Tabb
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Today's Botanic Spark
1901 Thomas Meehan at Gettysburg — after the Civil War battle, botanist Thomas Meehan collected plants on the Gettysburg battlefield, a milkweed specimen later inspiring his brother’s moving essay “Battlefield Flowers.”
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