April 3, 2020 Gardening for Resilience, Magnifying Glass for the Garden Tote, Nikolay Rumyantsev, John Burroughs, Kate Brandegee, Graham Stuart Thomas, The Overstory by Richard Powers, and The Wake-Robin by Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter
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Gardening for Resilience By Lysa Myers
Today’s garden to-do is to add a magnifying glass to your garden tote.
The best gardeners throughout our history have looked closely at their plants - often using magnifiers of some fashion.
Get up close and personal with your plants and increase your intimacy with your garden by looking at it through the lens of a magnifying glass. Now’s the perfect time to add one to your garden tote. As with every garden tool - you won’t use it if it’s not handy.
Botanical History On This Day
1754 Count Nikolay Rumyantsev, Russian statesman who funded the Rurik expedition that led Adelbert von Chamisso to name the California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, in honor of his friend Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz.
1837 John Burroughs, American naturalist, essayist, and author of Wake-Robin, was born on a Catskills dairy farm and grew into “John o’ Birds,” the beloved chronicler of spring and woodland flowers.
1920 Kate Brandegee, pioneering American botanist, curator, mentor to Alice Eastwood, and co-creator of a legendary California herbarium, died after a lifetime of selfless work for Berkeley’s collections.
1909 Graham Stuart Thomas, English plantsman, rosarian, and National Trust garden adviser whose classic taste reshaped 20th-century gardens, was born, and it all began with a little potted fuchsia on his sixth birthday.
Unearthed Words
Early April arrives in poems of rain-washed roofs, green grass, and sensitive plants from Emerson, Dora Hill Read Goodale, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Read the poem for April 3
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Today's Botanic Spark
A woodland tribute to trillium and John Burroughs in “The Wake-Robin” by Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter, where a drowsy spring flower is gently teased for waking after the robin’s song.
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