February 14, 2020 Broken Plant Pots, Growing Chives, Captain James Cook, The Apple Paring Machine, Henry David Thoreau, Willow, the Philadelphia Botanical Club, A Taste for Herbs by Sue Goetz, Eleanor Bor and The Adventures Of A Botanist’s Wife
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10 Ideas For What To Do With Broken Plant Pots | Joy Us Garden
Don't toss that old, broken pot out just yet!
Whether you nestle it, fill it with herbs, stack it, lay it sideways, create a layered planting, or add cacti/succulents, the options are endless!
10 Benefits of Growing Chives | Great Post @GrowForCookFerm:
They are perennial with a long growing season and are the perfect garnish. They also attract pollinators, have edible blossoms, tasty greens, and are high in Vitamins K & A.
Botanical History On This Day
1779 Captain James Cook, British explorer and commander of the Endeavor, whose voyages carried botanists like Sir Joseph Banks to Australia and beyond, was killed in Hawaii in a tragic clash on the shores of Kealakekua Bay.
1803 Moses Coates of Downington, Pennsylvania, received a patent for his cranked wooden Apple Paring Machine, the ancestor of more than 150 later apple-parer patents and the quiet end of old-time apple butter paring bees.
1856 Henry David Thoreau’s willow hedge was immortalized in his journal as he marveled at the self-sown, silver-catkin’d osiers that had “planted themselves” along the railroad causeway like a riverbank of living resilience.
1892 The Philadelphia Botanical Club took its very first field trip to historic Bartram’s Garden, the preserved botanical homestead along the Schuylkill, later honored as an ASHS Horticultural Landmark.
Unearthed Words
Winter in a white velvet cloak: Lucy Maud Montgomery’s snowy gardens and milk-white dawns remind us that beneath the drifts, “rainbow buds of by-and-by” are already dreaming of spring. Read Lucy Maud Montgomery’s winter garden poems
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Today's Botanic Spark
1897 English writer Eleanor Constance Rundall Bor was born; in sand shoes on Himalayan cliff paths, she followed her grass-specialist husband and later turned their Indian expeditions into the charming memoir The Adventures of a Botanist’s Wife.
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