January 17, 2020 The Conifer Comeback, Best Plants to Paint for Beginners, Leonhart Fuchs, Gaspard Bauhin, John Ray, Peter Henderson, The Herb Lover’s Spa Book by Sue Goetz, Hanging Glass Wall Planters, and David Wheeler’s Hortus
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Great Dixter's Head Gardener, Fergus Garrett, On Conifers | House & Garden
Great post from @_houseandgarden about "Why the Conifer is Having a Comeback."
"Conifers do not have to be plonked in island beds with gaudy heathers, or peppered around Seventies-style rockeries like missiles...
Their range is mouth-watering, adding form and texture with a twist."
Best Plants To Paint For Beginners | Kew
Pick up your brushes - Here's Kew’s list of the best plants to paint for beginners | @kewgardens
Botanical History On This Day
1501 Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist whose monumental herbal Historia Stirpium described New World crops like corn, pumpkins, and chili peppers, was born; the genus Fuchsia is named in his honor.
1560 Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and forerunner of Linnaeus, was born; he used binomial names and formally described the rutabaga, a true turnip–cabbage cross.
1705 John Ray, “The Father of English Botany,” died; he coined terms like petal and pollen, traveled Europe cataloging plants and animals, and wrote the foundational Historia Plantarum.
1890 Peter Henderson, Scottish-American plantsman and “Father of American Horticulture,” died; his books Gardening for Profit and Gardening for Pleasure shaped generations of market gardeners and home growers.
Unearthed Words
Winter poems that imagine the landscape asleep under snow, from Conrad Aiken, Lewis Carroll, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Elinor Wylie’s dreamy “Winter Sleep.”
Read today's collection of poems about Winter Dreams and Winter Sleep
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Read The Daily Gardener review of The Herb Lover's Spa Book by Sue Goetz
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Great Gifts for Gardeners
Pack of 6 Glass Planters – Wall Hanging Round Glass Plant Pots – six clear glass globes that turn air plants, succulents, or trailing stems into living wall art, indoors or out.
Today's Botanic Spark
1989 David Wheeler’s Hortus launched as a tactile, old-world journal of garden writing “for gardeners who read and readers who garden,” a lovingly analog quarterly that still arrives, ink on paper, for those who savor words as much as plants.
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