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Dead rats, putrid flesh and sweaty socks: rare orchid gives botanists a first whiff | Environment | The Guardian

The orchid – Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis – is in bloom for the first time in a glasshouse at @Cambridge_Uni Botanic Garden. The orchid’s natural habitat in western Papua New Guinea, where it grows at altitudes of around 500 meters, is under threat.

Amaryllis: how to grow this festive houseplant - The English Garden

The English Garden @tegmagazine shared this great post about growing Amaryllis. If you are hesitant to try growing it - don't be. They are lovely & "It’s very straightforward to coax them from a bulb into a towering plant producing colorful trumpets of flowers."

After the flowers have faded, cut back the flower stalk to the base. Continue to water and give the bulb an occasional feed – the leaves will continue to grow.

Botanical History On This Day

1823 Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, the formidable orchidologist who named more orchids than anyone else, inspired Sander’s lavish Reichenbachia, and lent his name to the queenly Vanda sanderiana, was born.

1856 Augustus Van Wickle, coal magnate whose summer dream of a yachting estate became Blithewold, one of New England’s most romantic waterfront gardens, was born.

1873 Mary Strong Clemens, a tireless plant collector who worked side by side with her chaplain husband around the world and left us a heartbreaking specimen label from the New Guinea tree beneath which he died, was born.

1960 Constance Spry, the revolutionary florist who filled London windows with hedgerow flowers, decorated the Queen’s coronation, and showed the world that beauty could be both wild and grand, died.

1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine premiered and later gave gardeners a wink in the episode “The Wire,” when Dr. Julian Bashir protested, “I’m a doctor, not a botanist.”

Unearthed Words

A handful of gentle, garden-tinged lines from Joan Walsh Anglund, where birds sing simply because they have a song, friendships open like roses, and every fallen leaf becomes a golden reminder. Garden Words by Joan Walsh Anglund

Grow That Garden Library™

Read The Daily Gardener review of Indoor Kitchen Gardening by Elizabeth Millard

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Great Gifts for Gardeners

Good Directions “Landing Duck” Cottage Weathervane (Polished Copper)

Today's Botanic Spark

1892 J. R. R. Tolkien, whose richly planted Middle-earth inspired a modern botanical field guide to his fictional flora, was born—proof that even in fantasy, the plants must be believable.

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