December 9, 2019 Goodbye Sansevieria, Blue Mold, Substituting Herbs in Cooking, Thoreau, Peter Smithers, Karl Blossfeldt, Ground Rules by Kate Frey, Mushroom Set and Lorraine Collett
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Will I Ever Call Sansevieria by Its New Name? - The Houseplant Guru by Lisa Steinkopf
Goodbye Sansevieria trifasciata... Hello Dracaena trifasciata!
The Royal Society - Microscopic Blue Mould @royalsociety
This beautiful illustration is actually a microscopic view of blue mold growing on leather. The original (1665) appears in Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke.
Penicillium expansum is commonly known as Blue Mold. Blue molds are the bluish fungus that grows on food. Most people are familiar with the blue molds on some cheeses...
Substituting Herbs | @RosaleeForet
“What herbs can I use instead of ________?”
At first, it may seem like a simple question. But the reality is, herbal substitutions are more complicated than that. You need to know how to think about them first.
Botanical History On This Day
1855 Henry David Thoreau watched the first snow fall straight and fine over Walden Pond, briefly whitening the landscape before turning to rain and postponing winter’s arrival in his journal.
1913 Sir Peter Smithers, British politician, diplomat, possible inspiration for James Bond, and award-winning gardener who designed low-maintenance, pleasure-forward gardens for his later years, was born.
1932 Karl Blossfeldt, German plant photographer who created thousands of magnified images showing stems, buds, and tendrils as architectural and jewel-like works of art, died.
Unearthed Words
Winter Reflections in the Garden from D. H. Lawrence, John Boswell, and Andrew Wyeth, savoring frost, golden moments, and the bare bone structure of the winter landscape where “the whole story doesn’t show.”
Grow That Garden Library™
Read The Daily Gardener review of Ground Rules by Kate Frey
Buy the book on Amazon: Ground Rules by Kate Frey
Great Gifts for Gardeners
5.2" x 4.6" 3pc Aluminum Mushroom Planter Figurine Set (Gold) – Smith & Hawken™
Today's Botanic Spark
Lorraine Collett and the Sun-Maid Girl, the Kansas-born model whose sunny curls, red bonnet, and grape-laden tray became the iconic face of Sun-Maid Raisins—and eventually earned her bonnet a place in the Smithsonian—was born.
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