July 13, 2020 Garden Ideas to Boost Curb Appeal, Julius Caesar, Jane Loudon, John Charles Frémont, John Clare, The Power of a Plant by Stephen Ritz, and the Fairchild Tropical Garden
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Botanical History On This Day
100 BC Julius Caesar, whose birthday is still marked in Rome with wreaths and flowers at the Forum where he was murdered.
1858 Jane Loudon, science-fiction pioneer turned beloved garden writer, who became the hands and pen of her husband, John Claudius Loudon, and completed his final book after his death.
1890 John Charles Frémont, “The Pathfinder,” who saw Nebraska as one vast garden and lent his name to the cottonwood, Populus fremontii, sacred in Native American tradition.
Unearthed Words
Birthday tributes and tender nature verses from the English poet who heard “all nature” speaking beyond the reach of books.
John Clare’s Nature Poems
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Today’s Botanic Spark
1986 Fairchild Tropical Garden dazzled readers of The Billings Gazette with cannonball trees, bromeliads, orchids, and other tropical wonders in a lush Miami escape for winter-weary Northerners.
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