July 1, 2020 Dwight Brown’s Urban Oasis, July in the Garden, Vale of York Naturalists Club, Illinois State Flower, July Poetry, The Earth Knows My Name by Patricia Klindienst, and Plant Explorer Finds Adventure in 1932
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Before & After: An Urban Oasis - Flower Magazine
Dwight Brown of Father Nature Landscapes wanted to honor his client’s wishes for a garden that would remind him of his European travels.
Brown aged the exterior with a creeping fig (Ficus pumila) for a climber on the side of the house, he also added an Oakland holly, a ‘Shi-Shi Gashira’ camellia and a shaped boxwood hedge that edged a gorgeous group of ‘Limelight’ hydrangea.
Brown says,
“Much like English ivy, the creeping fig with boxwoods, mondo grass, and hydrangeas helped create the classic cottage look I wanted..
We love working edibles into the ornamental landscape. Our goal was to bring back memories of the homeowner’s travels to Europe, especially Italy...”
Botanical History On This Day
1871 Vale of York Field Naturalists Club held its very first field day to Rivaulx Abbey, where botanists, geologists, and entomologists braved wretched weather, explored the valley, and ended with a jovial dinner at Helmsley’s Crown Hotel.
1908 Illinois State Flower, the Violet was officially adopted after a spirited vote by schoolchildren, who also chose the white oak as state tree, while fashion pages simultaneously declared “the reign of the violet” to be over.
1910 Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker at Ninety-Three received personal congratulations from King George as newspapers celebrated the great botanist’s long life of exploration, from Antarctic voyages to global floras that enriched British science and commerce.
Unearthed Words
July storms, violets, and rain-drenched garden beds are the subject of poems by Christina Rossetti, John Ray, Raymond A. Foss, Robert Frost, and Sara Coleridge, all savoring the drama and relief of midsummer weather.
Check out these Poems for Stormy July
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Today’s Botanic Spark
1932 Frank Kingdon-Ward, Plant Explorer, was profiled in newspapers worldwide as the intrepid plant hunter who braved jungles, glaciers, and newly discovered passes into Tibet to bring gardeners' treasures like the blue poppy, rare slipper orchids, and the exquisite campanula calicola.
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