November 20 Horticultural Fleece, School Horticulture Clubs, John Merle Coulter, Penelope Hobhouse, Lespedeza, August Henry Kramer, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening by Katie Elzer-Peters, Holiday Planters, and the Smallest Rose Park
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How to protect your crops from winter cold the sustainable way | The Telegraph
Here's a helpful post from @jackwallington
“Horticultural fleece is a veg plot wonder.” Yes, it is!
Gardeners should look to move away from plastic cloches to more Sustainable options like glass and fabric. Stay Warm and Keep Gardening!
Horticulture Club buds into Staples – Inklings News
Students must deal with increasing amounts of stress. Greenhouses in Schools are seldom used. Put the two together & you have a recipe for success. Bring horticulture into schools - 30 min of gardening = happier people at any age!
Botanical History On This Day
1851 John Merle Coulter, botanist and founder of the Botanical Gazette, was born; he led the University of Chicago’s botany department and co-authored the classic “ABC” Handbook of Plant Dissection.
1929 Penelope Hobhouse, beloved garden writer and designer of gardens from Walmer Castle to the New York Botanical Garden, was born; her principles emphasize strong structure, restraint in color, and repeating forms.
1933 Lespedeza’s Naming Error — the Knoxville Journal reported that the genus Lespedeza was likely a misspelling of Cespedes, a Florida governor, but botanists agreed it was too late to correct the mistake.
1989 August Henry Kramer — the St. Louis Post-Dispatch told the story of his long-buried collection of 493 luminous botanical watercolors, rediscovered and finally appreciated decades after his death.
Unearthed Words
Andrew Wyeth and Jane Hirshfield give us November as bare bone structure and honest labor in the garden—where winter reveals the landscape’s frame and the work “swallows you into itself.”
November Reflections in the Garden
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Today's Botanic Spark
1969 Richard William Fagan and Mill Ends Park — Oregon columnist Dick Fagan created the world’s smallest rose park, an 18-inch-wide planting called Mill Ends Park, to help Portland defend its title as the Rose City.
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