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Enveloped In American Gardens | Landscape Architecture Magazine

“The U.S. Postal Service recently released the “American Gardens” stamp series, commemorating 10 landmark gardens across the nation. The stamps were designed by Ethel Kessler and feature photos by Allen Rokach, a former director of photography at the New York Botanical Garden.

The stamps are a reminder of the vital role the outdoors offers during the COVID-19 quarantine, says U.S. Postal Service Director of Stamp Services Bill Gicker. “Time spent in nature, especially a beautiful and cared for garden landscape, can be very uplifting and rejuvenating—just what many people can use at this time,” he says.”

Finding Chaucer's true love growing in the woods is a buzz | The Guardian

“Herb Paris is the trewelove herb of Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale, combining an aphrodisiac with qualities of piety from medieval plant lore.”

Botanical History On This Day

1878 Forrest Shreve, the great American desert botanist, whose work in Tucson defined the four North American desert regions and celebrated the “continually shifting panorama of vegetation” on desert mountains.

1901 Eva Reed, botanist, author, and Missouri Botanical Garden librarian, who tragically died sketching wildflowers on a railroad track near Louisiana, Missouri.

1917 Tom Thomson, the Canadian painter of luminous northern landscapes and trees, whose mysterious death on Canoe Lake cut short a career that helped inspire the Group of Seven.

1934 Leonard Cockayne, England-born botanist who made New Zealand his home, became its most celebrated plant scientist, and is memorialized amid the native vegetation he loved.

Unearthed Words

Hoeing in withering July, the comforts of iced tea and tools, the honest verdict of the garden, and the fragrance of manure and foliage—summer musings from Pitter, Jekyll, Emerson, and more. Check out these Summer Reflections from the Garden

Grow That Garden Library™

Read The Daily Gardener review of Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier

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Today’s Botanic Spark

1965 Milk Sickness and Wild Snakeroot, recalling how toxic White Snakeroot once emptied the town of Hindustan, Indiana, and caused the milk-borne illness that killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother.

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