November 25, 2019 Best Holiday Botanical Garden, Vancouver Seawall, Francisco de Paula Marín, Leonard Woolf, Hideo Sasaki, Rudolph Boysen, Orchid Modern by Marc Hachadourian, Holiday Microgreens, and Starting a Walking Club
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Vancouver's Seawall Proves Strong Infrastructure Can Be Pretty, Too | CityLab @CityLab @zachmortice
Zach Mortice wrote this great article in City Lab about an artistic seawall barrier. Gardeners can be inspired by taking the functional and making it so much more. Fencing, borders, raised beds, etc., don't need to be eyesores.
Botanical History On This Day
1774 Francisco de Paula Marín, the Spanish adventurer and “Hawaii’s Original Farmer,” was born; he introduced pineapple, vineyards, and coffee cultivation to the islands under King Kamehameha I.
1880 Leonard Sidney Woolf, husband of Virginia Woolf and creator of the Monk's House garden, was born—his carefully tended fruit trees and vistas became both livelihood and sanctuary.
1919 Hideo Sasaki, the Japanese-American landscape architect and influential educator behind iconic corporate campuses and urban spaces like Boston’s Copley Square, was born in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
1950 Rudolph Boysen, plant hybridizer and namesake of the boysenberry, died; his oversized, juicy berry helped launch Knott’s Berry Farm, though Boysen himself never profited from it.
Unearthed Words
Three November pieces from William Cullen Bryant, Eric Pinder, and Elizabeth Coatsworth capture stick season, melancholy winds, and the quiet settling of the garden into winter rest.
November Garden Lines
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Read The Daily Gardener review of Orchid Modern by Marc Hachadourian
Buy the book on Amazon: Orchid Modern
Today's Botanic Spark
1890 Walking Clubs and Autumn Health — the San Francisco Call encouraged boys and girls to form walking clubs, explore the countryside, and even invite an “amateur botanist or geologist” along to learn from nature on every ramble.
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