July 4, 2020 Installing a Temporary Garden, Dependence Day, Henry Bewley, Mary Dedecker, Lady Joan Margaret Legge, National Meadows Day, The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng, and Calvin Coolidge’s 52nd Birthday
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Just moved? Build a Temporary Garden at Your New Home by Shawna Coronado
“It’s a smart plan to set up a temporary garden at your new home when you have just moved because you don’t really understand the “lay of the land” in your garden yet. Understanding your garden takes at least a year. A YEAR!?!?! Yes. A year. An example of this is that the sunshine changes throughout your garden. In the winter you might have the direct sun in some places, creating micro-climates, while in the summer you could have the opposite. Understanding your sun, water, and other conditions on your property takes a while.”
No Independence Day for Gardener
Botanical History On This Day
1804 Henry Bewley, the Dublin chemist, whose gutta-percha tubing changed industry, dentistry, and telegraph cables, and made the modern garden hose possible.
1976 Mary DeDecker’s July Gold, as the self-taught California botanist returned to see the cliffs of the Inyo and White Mountains blazing with her newly discovered shrub, DeDeckeria eurekensis.
1939 Lady Joan Margaret Legge, the English botanist who lost her life collecting alpine plants in India’s newly famed Valley of Flowers, where she now rests beneath a Psalm-carved stone.
Unearthed Words
Meadow-sweet days and buttercup paths—wildflower verses from Wordsworth, Rossetti, MacKay, Wynne, and Courtney in honor of National Meadows Day.
Poems for the Meadow
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Today’s Botanic Spark
1924 Calvin Coolidge’s Birthday Flowers, when the only U.S. President born on July 4th marked his 52nd birthday with a nearly six-foot floral arrangement on the White House lawn and 46,000 birthday wishes.
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