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Alan Titchmarsh: The stunning midwinter trees whose bark is better than their bite - Country Life

Here's a great post by Alan Titchmarsh in Country Life about the fabulous book Winter Gardens by Cedric Pollet.

Pollet is a shutterbug who captures plants in their dormancy: "the best varieties of dogwoods, willows, maples, and birches, plus a smattering of brambles and bamboos."

"We are none of us too old to discover new plants and new ways of using them."

Plant health resolutions: Pippa Greenwood

Botanist and broadcaster @PippaGreenwood wants to see more funding for research into pests and pathogens, and the breeding of plants better able to resist new diseases.

"You could say that plant health is the most important thing – we as the human race cannot survive long-term without plants, in fact we couldn’t survive for long at all.

Plants are fundamentally important to everything. Increased movement of people, food and other goods has played a significant part in the spread of pests and pathogens, often with very serious impact on plant health.

Quite simply, we have to take steps to ensure plant health is seen as a top priority."

Botanical History On This Day

1686 Jan Gronovius, the Dutch botanist who relied on Virginia botanist John Clayton’s specimens (and Linnaeus’s help) to assemble the first Flora of Virginia — and who quietly christened the Twinflower Linnaea borealis in honor of his modest friend Carl Linnaeus — was born.

1766 Benjamin Smith Barton, American botanist, naturalist, and physician, the first professor of botany to publish an American botany textbook and tutor to Meriwether Lewis before the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

1882 Winifred Mary Letts, the English writer whose tender poem “Spring the Cheat” contrasts the hopefulness of spring with the heartbreak of the Great War, was born in Salford, England.

1920 Jack Heslop-Harrison, British botanist and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew — and a great admirer of the marsh orchid Dactylorhiza × braunii, now marked at Kew as his favorite flower — was born.

Unearthed Words

Here are some poems and quotes about snow and winter’s quiet magic: Aristotle on the beauty of a snowflake, a Korean proverb on winter and companions, William Cullen Bryant’s “The Snow-Shower,” and Nancy Hatch Woodward’s “secret cathedral” of snowy dogwoods.
Read today’s wintery Unearthed Words

Grow That Garden Library™

Read The Daily Gardener review of A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith

Buy the book on Amazon: A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith

Great Gifts for Gardeners

Katzco Furniture Repair Kit Wood Markers – Set of 13 – $9.99

• 13-piece kit: 6 repair markers, 6 wax sticks, and 1 sharpener
• 6 colors to match most woods: Maple, Oak, Cherry, Walnut, Mahogany, and Black
• Top-quality for covering scratches, nicks, scuffs, and discoloration
• Color, let dry, and watch scratches disappear

Today's Botanic Spark

Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart

Laura Ingalls Wilder & The World Outside Her Door — On the anniversary of her death in 1957, we revisit Laura’s deep love of gardens and wild places, and Marta McDowell’s book The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, which follows the frontier landscapes that shaped the Little House books and reveals Laura as a keen observer of nature.

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