February 3, 2020 Yellow Milkweed, Carnivorous Plants From Columbus Ohio, Frederick Traugott Pursh, Carl Ludwig Blume, February Garden Poems & Prose, You Can Grow African Violets By Joyce Stark, And National Carrot Cake Day
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Hello Yellow Milkweed/Butterfly Flower, View All Flowers: Botanical Interests @botanicalseeds
"Bring sunny color into the pollinator garden with ‘Hello Yellow’ milkweed! Asclepias tuberosa (ah-SKLEE-pee-iss TOO-burr-OH-sah) is usually orange, but this yellow beauty was found in Colorado."
Columbus' Carnivorous Collectibles from The Lantern @TheLanterns
“A single organism of Sarracenia purpurea, collected by botanist/bryologist William Sullivant - 1840 - one of the few documented pitcher plants that grew in central Ohio.”
Botanical History On This Day
1814 Frederick Pursh & the Flora of North America was announced in a letter from Aylmer Lambert to Sir James Edward Smith, revealing Pursh’s controversial use of Lewis & Clark specimens and his creation of the genera Lewisia and Clarkia.
1862 Carl Ludwig Blume, the German-Dutch botanist of Java who established the orchid genus Dendrobium, named the moth orchid Phalaenopsis amabilis, and helped popularize coleus, died in Leiden.
Unearthed Words
Short, sharp sayings about February’s tempers and transitions—from thawing lakes and “February faces” to New England complaints and the borderland between winter and spring. Check out my collection of February Sayings.
Grow That Garden Library™
Read The Daily Gardener review of YOU CAN Grow African Violets by Joyce Stark
Buy the book on Amazon: YOU CAN Grow African Violets by Joyce Stark
Great Gifts for Gardeners
WiHoo 8" Indoor Outdoor Thermometer/Hygrometer (Bronze) – $19.99
Today's Botanic Spark
Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart
Today is National Carrot Cake Day, which traces the sweet story of carrots—from their royal Dutch orange makeover to early 20th-century carrot cake recipes and beloved heritage versions like Ethel Amsler’s brandy-soaked showstopper and the famous 14-Carat Cake.
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