January 6, 2020 Small Gardens, Julio Betancur, William MacGillivray, Gregor Mendel, Charles Gardner, Alwyn Howard Gentry, January Prose, A Garden Miscellany by Suzanne Staubach, Plant Clips, and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd
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From @IBTimes The botanist Julio Betancur is a 59-year-old, a biologist, university professor, and "collector of bromeliads -- which include the pineapple, Spanish moss, and queen of the Andes -- says it's worth taking risks so his country can 'know about' its biodiversity.
"Every time I take a botanical sample, it's like writing a page in the book of our forests," he said.
In the future, once the vegetation has disappeared from somewhere, people "will know what species lived there at a certain time and with that will reconstruct the natural history of this territory."
Botanical History On This Day
1796 William MacGillivray, the Scottish naturalist who once walked 838 miles to London while tallying flora, fauna, and whiskeys and later founded Aberdeen’s Zoology Museum, was born.
1884 Gregor Mendel, the Augustinian monk whose patient garden peas revealed the laws of heredity and gave us the language of dominant and recessive genes, died.
1896 Charles Austin Gardner, painter, prolific collector of Western Australian flora, and namesake of both a memorial and national park amid native wildflowers, was born.
1945 Alwyn Howard Gentry, towering tropical botanist and Missouri Botanical Garden curator who collected some 70,000 specimens before his tragic death in Ecuador, was born.
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1946 Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd who later slipped into a quiet life of painting and gardening, was born—now remembered in a planned hospital garden featuring a sculpture of Syd coasting along on his bicycle, guitar and paintbrushes in hand.
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